Mother Quotes by Betty Friedan

9 Mother quotes by Betty Friedan

Betty Friedan’s nine brief reflections on motherhood pack a powerful punch in a compact format. This quick set offers a concise, resonant glimpse into her perspective on the role of mothers.

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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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Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different, and the choice…

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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,…

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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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I understood somehow my mother's frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her…

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them…

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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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Over and over again, stories in women's magazines insist that women can know fulfillment only at the moment of giving birth to…

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The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at…

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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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