“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
