Science Quotes by Betty Friedan

8 Science quotes by Betty Friedan

Betty Friedan’s eight science statements are concise, reflecting her feminist lens on knowledge and progress. Though limited, they offer a quick sense of how she connects scientific ideas to gender equity.

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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…

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“The insights, interpretations both of theory and fact, and the implicit values of this book are inevitably my own. But whether or…

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The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a…

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The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women…

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Certain signs, some of them visible to the layman as well as the scientist, indicate that we have been watching an ice…

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In almost every professional field, in business and in the arts and sciences, women are still treated as second-class citizens. It would…

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“The physicist's relativity, which in recent years has changed our whole approach to scientific knowledge, is harder, and therefore easier to understand,…

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“What Friedan gave to the world was, "the problem that has no name." She not only named it but dissected it. The…

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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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