ziemiomorze
10.08.05, 23:47
Kilka mysli matki i babki feminizmu, Betty Friedan, glownej ideolozki
tzw. 'drugiej fali feminizmu'.
Selected Betty Friedan Quotations
• A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by
slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by
refusing to compete with man at all.
• The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as
a person, is by creative work of her own. There is no other way.
• Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.
• When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she
finally began to enjoy being a woman.
• The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women
alive.
• The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities
fully, to achieve identity in society in a life plan that can encompass
marriage and motherhood, is the kind that was forbidden by the feminine
mystique, the lifelong commitment to an art or science, to politics or
profession.
• It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
• A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither
should she adjust to prejudice and discrimination.
• The problem that has no name — which is simply the fact that American women
are kept from growing to their full human capacities — is taking a far
greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known
disease.
• Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped
for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with
her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at
night — she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question — "Is this
all?"
• No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
• Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the
America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national
compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.
• Men weren't really the enemy
