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
We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn't… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I'm against suppression of pornography. If you suppress guns - yes; if you want to suppress poverty - yes. These are the… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
All year there have been these cover stories that the women's movement is dead and about the death of feminism and the… — 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 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
Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel… — 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 yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled wit it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter… — Betty Friedan Copy Share
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
