Betty Friedan Quotes

Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgastic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.

Betty Friedan

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• We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science
  • Ignorance
  • View

• I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Wonder
  • motivation
  • I Wonder

• I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Breakfast

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Past
  • You
  • Mistakes

• Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • People
  • Future
  • Change

• My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Water
  • Best
  • Beauty

• I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • High
  • Fly
  • Feet

• There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Confidence
  • Line
  • Arrogance

• I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Always
  • Fight
  • See

• I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Wonderful
  • Fake
  • Given

• I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Up
  • Remember
  • American

• Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Woman
  • Begins
  • Man's

• I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Words
  • Stop

• When Captain America is in a room full of Marvel superheroes, he is always Top Dog, even though his powers are pretty modest. He could be stood next to Thor, Iron Man, whoever. He is the one that everyone looks up to. To me, that is Superman, too. Even de-powered in the Legion arc, he was still Superman. Still Top Dog.

  

  Gary Frank
  • Up
  • America
  • Pretty

• I have no mouth, and I must scream.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Mouth
  • Scream
  • Must

• Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

  

  Quintilian
  • Future
  • Fear
  • Present

• My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • World
  • Me
  • Daughter

• You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Country
  • Mother
  • Fall

• I love art, but not in a cliched, luvvie way.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Art
  • Way
  • Cliched

• I had no money. I just figured out hustles to get by, like maybe selling my clothes. I wanted to travel around and be broke and live in sketchy apartments.

  

  Leo Fitzpatrick
  • Live
  • Money
  • Travel

• I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a structure but can fly by the seat of my pants when I write.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Fly

• America's middle class is getting hammered, and Washington is rigged to work for the big guy.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • Work
  • America
  • Guy

• Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgastic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.

  

  Betty Friedan
  • America
  • Sex
  • Promise