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8 Home quotes by Betty Friedan

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Betty Friedan’s thoughts on home feel personal and grounded, distilling a lifetime of insight into just eight memorable lines. This brief selection gives a taste of how she frames the everyday space we all share, making it a gentle entry point for anyone curious about her take on domestic life.

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This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for…

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If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and…

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It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own…

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We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn't…

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Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as…

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We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and…

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There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother's health, well-being and autonomy and control of her…

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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.

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It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.

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This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is…

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A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.

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...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked…

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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.

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It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if…

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Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.

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“The problem is always being the children’s mommy, or the minister’s wife and never being myself.”

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“The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a…

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The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed…

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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…

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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…

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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

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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…

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“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…

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