Quotes


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"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." -Betty Friedan

"The time is a hand when the voices of the feminine mystique can no longer drown out the inner voice that is driving women on to become complete." -Betty Friedan

"The relative positions to be assumed by men and women in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence." -President Grover Cleveland

"The most powerful weapon of the feminine mystique is the argument that [a woman] rejects her husband and her children by working outside the home." -Betty Friedan

"They were once again human beings, not 'just housewives'." -Betty Friedan

"My office job was only a substitution for the real job I'd been 'hired' for: that of being purely a wife and mother." -Jennifer Colton

"The only way for a women, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own." -Betty Friedan

Nursery Rhymes:
"The king was in his counting house, Counting out his money; The queen was in the parlor, Eating bread and honey."

"Curly-locks, Curly-locks, wilt thou be mine? Thou shalt not wash the dishes, not yet feed the swine; But sit on a cushion, and sew a fine seam, And feed upon strawberries, sugar, and cream."

The Glass Ceiling:
"The glass ceiling has certainly been shattered." -Sheila E. Widnall (The only women ever to serve on the armed forces U.S. government branch)

"Perhaps the ceiling is more like plastic than glass; you can push through into the soft plastic and look at the higher levels of management, but never break through."

"It's not a glass ceiling anymore, it's a cement ceiling." -Judith Vladeck (a lawyer who had recently heard of the male who previously work for another company, hired as CEO of Avon when three long-term female employees were eligible for the job.)

"The glass ceiling shattered? No. Being dismantled, perhaps. Disappearing bit by bit. But not yet gone." (excerpt from //The Glass Ceiling//, written by Ann E. Weiss.)