Betty Friedan Quotes

Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to me, and that I can be part of without making any effort at all. I don't have to keep up with anyone, run as fast, aim as well, make loud explosive noises, decode messages, die on cue. I don't have to think about whether I do these things well, as well as a boy. All I have to do is sit on the floor and cut frying pans our of the Eaton's Catalogue with embroidery scissors, and say I've done it badly.

It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.

I was a weird tomboy most of my life. I didn't see the power in my own female form for quite a long time. Maybe that's a good thing.

I've had so many moments where seeing other women be fully and truly and authentically themselves, and express that, has given me permission. Once you see it happening, you're like, "Oh, I have permission to do that, too."

To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you.

I'm 27. I feel like I get it. I'm OK with being sexy if I feel like it. Some days I'm brainy, some days I'm funny, some days I'm sexy, and sometimes, I just want to dance.

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

I've kind of stepped into my femininity.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

My customer has her own sense of style and knows herself well. My goal is to help women become the best version of themselves.

I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not going to dress like a guy or carry myself like one.

Oh! Isn't it jolly To cast away folly And cut all one's clothes a peg shorter (A good many pegs) And rejoice in one's legs Like a free-minded Albion's daughter.

There's no better time than now to be who you are.

I truly believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

I think the most radical thing you can do is be yourself.

Getting to be authentic is so liberating.

To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act, and I think more and more people should try it, because it's gotten me a pretty cool life.

Sometimes females feel like they should act like men, but they should really just be themselves.

I'm really embracing that very out, very loud, very free persona that I am now but that I didn't get to be in high school.

Before my transition I felt trapped, and now I've been set free.

Even though I was 34 or 35 or something. I was like, “People can do that? Women can actually just say what they think?” It was an extraordinary experience to do that movie with her because every day was a lesson in how to just be yourself.

I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".

. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.

Don't fit in, don't sit still, don't ever try to be less than what you are...