Betty Friedan Quotes

There's more to life than football, right?

I think if I manage to juggle a personal life that I'm really happy with as well, as long as I manage to maintain balance, that's kind of the mark of success to me.

Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!

The idea is that we're doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

When you do multiple things you love, it doesn't feel like work.

I don't know what it is that I'm doing, but I'm really enjoying myself. And I'm free to do it as much as I want.

I think if you don't enjoy something, it's not sustainable.

There's something great about life when you can do something you enjoy.

So, the older I got the more I started to appreciate balance and variety in my life, and once you get a taste of that returning and realize how happy it can make you it is very difficult to conceive giving that up again.

There's so much more to life than just being healthy. There's so much more to life than just being normal.

Always be yourself and rebel against what people tell you should be and be whatever you want to.

Focus on yourself -- do what you want, when you want, without having to consider anyone else's agenda.

Relax. Be yourself. Play a lot.

I have fun when I want to have fun, but I am learning how to balance my life out.

I think that people don't make the most of their lives. So, you know, for me, it seems like it's the beginning of me rattling the cage, of making some people nervous. And people are strategically trying to do things to mute my voice in some way or make me look like I'm a lunatic or pinpoint the inaccuracies in my grammar to somehow take away from the overall message of what I'm saying.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do.

I love my personal life and having a social life. And I didn't ever want to have to compromise.

I have a great life and I'm super active.

From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.

When it stops being fun, stop.

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.

I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.