--- title: "13 Ifs Quotes By Betty Friedan" description: "13 Ifs quotes by Betty Friedan. Plus more from Betty Friedan and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27c/betty-friedan-3185_department_if-you-were-very-bright-and-you-became-h_1604145.jpg" --- > [If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/if-you-were-very-bright-and-you-became-head-of-a-department-as-i-did/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27c/betty-friedan-3185_department_if-you-were-very-bright-and-you-became-h_1604145.jpg) > [If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/if-women-s-role-in-life-is-limited-solely-to-housewife-mother-it/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e15/betty-friedan-3185_bears_if-women-s-role-in-life-is-limited-solel_331661.jpg) > [If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/if-divorce-has-increased-by-one-thousand-percent-don-t-blame-the/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c21/betty-friedan-3185_blame_if-divorce-has-increased-by-one-thousand_2164300.jpg) > [Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/instead-of-fulfilling-the-promise-of-infinite-orgasmic-bliss-sex-in/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e6/betty-friedan-3185_america_instead-of-fulfilling-the-promise-of-inf_1188283.jpg) > [A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/a-woman-has-got-to-be-able-to-say-and-not-feel-guilty-who-am-i-and/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec7/betty-friedan-3185_able_a-woman-has-got-to-be-able-to-say-and-no_1122685.jpg) > [Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can't be the perfect clone of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/each-woman-is-made-to-feel-it-is-her-own-cross-to-bear-if-she-can-t/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/277/betty-friedan-3185_bears_each-woman-is-made-to-feel-it-is-her-own_744957.jpg) > [There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother's health, well-being and autonomy and control of her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/there-is-absolutely-no-evidence-that-it-is-harmful-to-children-if/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1bb/betty-friedan-3185_autonomy_there-is-absolutely-no-evidence-that-it_2522946.jpg) > [If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/if-i-were-a-man-i-would-strenuously-object-to-the-assumption-that/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6b/betty-friedan-3185_assumption_if-i-were-a-man-i-would-strenuously-obje_2704920.jpg) > [I'm against suppression of pornography. If you suppress guns - yes; if you want to suppress poverty - yes. These are the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/i-m-against-suppression-of-pornography-if-you-suppress-guns-yes-if/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b98/betty-friedan-3185_ads_i-m-against-suppression-of-pornography-i_1052481.jpg) > [Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/aging-is-not-lost-youth-but-a-new-stage-of-opportunity-and-strength-2/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c7/betty-friedan-3185_aging_aging-is-not-lost-youth-but-a-new-stage_2432547.jpg) > [American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/american-housewives-have-not-had-their-brains-shot-away-nor-are-they/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41a/betty-friedan-3185_brain_american-housewives-have-not-had-their-b_2562469.jpg) > [The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/the-only-kind-of-work-which-permits-an-able-woman-to-realize-her/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/708/betty-friedan-3185_ability_the-only-kind-of-work-which-permits-an-a_1047105.jpg) > [There's no question that the black middle class has benefited greatly by the civil rights movement. But there is a large black…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/there-s-no-question-that-the-black-middle-class-has-benefited-greatly/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c86/betty-friedan-3185_access_there-s-no-question-that-the-black-middl_1524669.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by Betty Friedan > [It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/it-is-easier-to-live-life-through-someone-else-than-to-become/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) > [This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/this-idea-that-the-employment-of-women-the-movement-of-women-outside/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) > [A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/a-good-woman-is-one-who-loves-passionately-has-guts-seriousness-and/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) > [...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/women-who-adjust-as-housewives-who-grow-up-wanting-to-be-just-a/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) > [You can have it all, just not all at the same time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/you-can-have-it-all-just-not-all-at-the-same-time/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) > [It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/it-is-easier-to-live-through-someone-else-than-to-complete-yourself/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) > [Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/protectiveness-has-often-muffled-the-sound-of-doors-closing-against/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) > [“The problem is always being the children’s mommy, or the minister’s wife and never being myself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/the-problem-is-always-being-the-children-s-mommy-or-the-minister-s/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) > [“The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/the-problem-lay-buried-unspoken-for-many-years-in-the-minds-of/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) > [The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/the-man-who-is-extremely-and-dangerously-hungry-has-no-other-interest/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/who-knows-what-women-can-be-when-they-are-finally-free-to-become/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/if-women-s-role-in-life-is-limited-solely-to-housewife-mother-it/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) > [The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/the-feminine-mystique-has-succeeded-in-burying-millions-of-american/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/i-can-t-point-to-any-major-episodes-of-sexual-discrimination-in-my/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/the-feminine-mystique-elevated-by-freudian-theory-into-a-scientific/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/betty-friedan/#itemlist", "name": "13 Ifs Quotes By Betty Friedan", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. 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