Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Development can indeed continue beyond childhood and youth, beyond the seventies. It can continue until the very end of life, given purposes… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as… — 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
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Certain signs, some of them visible to the layman as well as the scientist, indicate that we have been watching an ice… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I'm against suppression of pornography. If you suppress guns - yes; if you want to suppress poverty - yes. These are the… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
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 Image
A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
...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 Image
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 Image
Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“The problem is always being the children’s mommy, or the minister’s wife and never being myself.” — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
