“Nikki : I think he makes women question their position in life through their association with the dichotomy of his physical power… — Tara Janzen Copy Share Image
“Barbara is on what is called the woman's trip to the exclusion of almost everything else. When she and Tom and Max… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Brilliant. . . . Marriage Confidential is both laugh-out-loud funny and gasp-out-loud shocking, and nothing less than a Feminine Mystique for our… — Debby Applegate Copy Share Image
“Across the various iterations, the 'real housewives' flaunted their refusal to conform to the happy modern housewife ideal as though they were… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I've been reading The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, which is obviously very dated now but still relevant. It's so interesting to… — Rose Byrne 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
“An economy that depends on slavery needs to promote images of slaves that “justify” the institution of slavery. The contemporary economy depends… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“Two lines from the book (The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan) remained wedged in her memory "It is easier to live through… — Randy Susan Meyers Copy Share Image
“The contagion of rights-consciousness especially attracted women, who grew more politically engaged than they had been since the achievement of women's suffrage… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
Over and over again, stories in women's magazines insist that women can know fulfillment only at the moment of giving birth to… — 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
I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women's magazines. That it threatened the very world… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“The optimistic, prosperous spirit of the time further advanced Friedan's message. Relatively few of the women who responded to The Feminine Mystique,… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn't… — 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
The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“The antecedents of Friedan's version of feminism also bear revisiting in light of the new information. Her infamous description of America's suburban… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of… — Edmund White 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
I've always jealously guarded my feminine mystique. I've been married twice, and neither of my husbands has ever seen me put my… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
“It is both an irony and an indictment of the feminine mystique that it often forced the unhappy ones, the ugly ducklings,… — 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
