Betty Friedan
"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."
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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."
"المرأة معوّقةٌ بجنسها، وتُعيق المجتمع، إما بتقليدها الذليل لنمط تقدّم الرجل في المهن، أو برفضها التام منافسة الرجل."
Betty Friedan
"It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all."
"للمرأة أن تنافس في المجتمع بلا شخصنة، كما يفعل الرجال، خيرٌ لها من أن تتنافس على الهيمنة في بيتها مع زوجها، أو تتسابق مع جاراتها على مكانة جوفاء، فتخنق ابنها بذلك حتى لا يقوى على المنافسة بتاتًا."
Betty Friedan
"We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!"
"نحن بحاجة إلى رؤية الرجال والنساء كشركاء متساوين، لكن من الصعب التفكير في أفلام تحقق ذلك. عندما أتحدث إلى الناس، يفكرون في أفلام منذ خمسة وأربعين عامًا! هيبورن وتريسي!"
Betty Friedan
"Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves."
"الرجال ليسوا العدو، بل هم رفاق الضحايا. العدو الحقيقي هو احتقار النساء لأنفسهن."
Betty Friedan
"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength."
"الشيخوخة ليست شبابًا ضائعًا، بل مرحلة جديدة من الفرص والقوة."
Betty Friedan
"Neither woman nor man lives by work or love alone... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that."
"لا يحيا الإنسان، ذكراً كان أم أنثى، بالعمل وحده أو بالحب وحده. إن النفس البشرية تُحدّد كيانها وتتطور عبر الحب والعمل: فكل علم النفس، قبل فرويد وبعده، يتلخص في ذلك."
Betty Friedan
"It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself."
"أيسر للمرء أن يحيا الحياة عبر غيره من أن يبلغ الكمال في ذاته."
Betty Friedan
"When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman."
"عندما كفّت عن الانصياع للصورة النمطية للأنوثة، بدأت أخيرًا تستمتع بكونها امرأة."
Betty Friedan
"We couldn't possibly know where it would lead but we knew it had to be done."
"لم نكن لنعلم إلى أين سيقودنا، لكننا أيقنا أنه لا بد من إتمامه."
Betty Friedan
"Men weren’t really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill."
Betty Friedan
"It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself."
Betty Friedan
"No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor."
Betty Friedan
"You can have it all, just not all at the same time."
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