Inspirational Quotes by Betty Friedan

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

— 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…

— Betty Friedan

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

— 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…

— Betty Friedan

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

— 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…

— Betty Friedan

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

— Betty Friedan

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Betty Friedan

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Betty Friedan