“Why should women accept this picture of a half-life, instead of a share in the whole of human destiny?” — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“Woman's sexual problems are, in this sense, by-products of the suppression of her basic need to grow and fulfill her potentialities as… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“A woman today who has no goal, no purpose, no ambition patterning her days into the future, making her stretch and grow… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The media and even, to some degree, leaders of women's organizations don't understand that the women's movement is an absolute part of… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I think it's tremendously important that women continue to be full participants in the corporate environment, and that they continue to seek… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The glorification of the 'woman's role, then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance to treat women as complete human beings;… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
the new mystique is that women can have it all. There's a whole new generation of women today, flogging themselves to compete… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions,… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Economic equity is an enormous empowerment of women. Having jobs that provide income means that women can be a more effective force,… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
There are some die-hard male chauvinist pigs and there are some Neanderthal women who are threatened by equality - but the great… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“It is not possible to preserve one's identity by adjusting for any length of time to a frame of reference that is… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“If one interprets 'penis envy' as other Freudian concepts have been reinterpreted, in the light of our new knowledge that what Freud… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
There's increasing consciousness that a "command and control" style of management which one associates with a male model isn't necessarily what works… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“Since, beginning with the same premise and examining the same body of anthropological evidence, she now arrives at a slightly different sexual… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Having expressed the rage against the laws and conditions that oppressed them - maybe even excess anger in the beginning was directed… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“The insights, interpretations both of theory and fact, and the implicit values of this book are inevitably my own. But whether or… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“We have gone on too long blaming or pitying the mothers who devour their children, who sow the seeds of progressive dehumanization,… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“The feminine mystique, elevated by Freudian theory into a scientific religion, sounded a single, overprotective, life-restricting, future-denying note for women. Girls who… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“What Friedan gave to the world was, "the problem that has no name." She not only named it but dissected it. The… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“It would be half-wrong to say it started with Sigmund Freud. It did not really start, in America, until the 1940s. And… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can't be the perfect clone of the… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“It is wrong to keep spelling out unnecessary choices that make women unconsciously resist either commitment or motherhood--and that hold back recognition… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“The unpleasant image of the feminists today resembles less the feminists themselves than the image fostered by the interests who so bitterly… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself. — Betty Friedan Copy Share
This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is… — Betty Friedan Copy Share
A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society. — Betty Friedan Copy Share
...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked… — Betty Friedan Copy Share
It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if… — Betty Friedan Copy Share
Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women. — Betty Friedan Copy Share
“The problem is always being the children’s mommy, or the minister’s wife and never being myself.” — Betty Friedan Copy Share
“The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a… — Betty Friedan Copy Share
The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed… — Betty Friedan Copy Share
Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women's intelligence will contribute when it can… — Betty Friedan Copy Share
If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children… — Betty Friedan Copy Share
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. — Betty Friedan Copy Share
I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame… — Betty Friedan Copy Share
“The feminine mystique, elevated by Freudian theory into a scientific religion, sounded a single, overprotective, life-restricting, future-denying note for women. Girls who grew up… — Betty Friedan Copy Share
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