Betty Friedan Quotes
American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if … the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one’s full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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AppStudio is a native app builder that allows you to build the app and automatically deploy it on Android, iPhone, and Windows. It lets you design it once and then implement it anywhere.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.
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You discover yourself through the research of your work.
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
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I started modeling with a very negative part of me – I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.
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I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.
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I have the luxury of balancing and juggling films in different languages.
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Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.
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I don't make plans anymore. So I'm not living minute to minute.
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News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.
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I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.
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American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if … the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one’s full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.
