It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is… — 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
“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
“There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who have never risked… — 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
All year there have been these cover stories that the women's movement is dead and about the death of feminism and 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
Diversity has got to be a part of modern feminism, and I think that my feminism is stronger because its an inclusive… — 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 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
Feminism or the family? Carried to excess maybe. I have insisted that women cannot be defined solely in those terms. But for… — 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
“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 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
