The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone ... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work:… — 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
We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Women, because they are not generally the principal breadwinners, can be perhaps most useful as the trail blazers, working along the bypaths,… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Some people think I'm saying, 'Women of the world unite -- you have nothing to lose but your men. It's not true.… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
the new mystique is that women can have it all. There's a whole new generation of women today, flogging themselves to compete… — 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
I think it's tremendously important that women continue to be full participants in the corporate environment, and that they continue to seek… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Having expressed the rage against the laws and conditions that oppressed them - maybe even excess anger in the beginning was directed… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Men, also, have in them enormous capacities that they have to repress and fear in themselves, living up to this obsolete and… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
There needs to be bolder thinking, ... on how to measure the quality of life of men and women in the work… — 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
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