People Quotes by Betty Friedan

8 People quotes by Betty Friedan

Betty Friedan’s eight quotes on people present a compact view of her social insight, especially around gender roles. Each line offers a clear, pointed comment that still feels relevant today.

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We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I…

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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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I'm against suppression of pornography. If you suppress guns - yes; if you want to suppress poverty - yes. These are the…

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All year there have been these cover stories that the women's movement is dead and about the death of feminism and the…

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Some people think I'm saying, 'Women of the world unite -- you have nothing to lose but your men. It's not true.…

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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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Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.

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I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel…

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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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