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
“To review briefly, in the late 1960s, men got paid more than women (usually double) for doing the exact same job. Women… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
I read a lot when I was young. All the obvious, all the greats, from 'Le Grand Meaulnes,' 'To Kill a Mockingbird,'… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Because I've spent most of my life with such a beautiful, talented, challenging female, I feel I've gained - and am still… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I was 15 when I first read 'The Feminine Mystique,' locked in my bedroom, probably wearing black, groping for any ideas I… — Kim Brooks 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
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 was the era that I later analyzed, the "feminine mystique" era, [when] "career woman" was a dirty word. And so I… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
In almost every professional field, in business and in the arts and sciences, women are still treated as second-class citizens. It would… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life. — Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Copy Share Image
“One could understand feminism generally as an attack on woman as she was under “patriarchy” (that concept is a social construction of… — Harvey Mansfield Copy Share Image
“As soon as a Western man comes into contact with the East -- he's already confused. The West has sort of an… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
“It is my thesis that the core of the problem for women today is not sexual but a problem of identity --… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
