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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 a child. They deny the years when she can no longer look forward to giving birth, even if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/over-and-over-again-stories-in-women-s-magazines-insist-that-women/)

[Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/)

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## More by Betty Friedan

> [It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/it-is-easier-to-live-life-through-someone-else-than-to-become/)

[Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/)

> [This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/this-idea-that-the-employment-of-women-the-movement-of-women-outside/)

[Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/)

> [A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/a-good-woman-is-one-who-loves-passionately-has-guts-seriousness-and/)

[Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/)

> [...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/women-who-adjust-as-housewives-who-grow-up-wanting-to-be-just-a/)

[Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/)

> [You can have it all, just not all at the same time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/you-can-have-it-all-just-not-all-at-the-same-time/)

[Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/)

> [It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/it-is-easier-to-live-through-someone-else-than-to-complete-yourself/)

[Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/)

> [Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/protectiveness-has-often-muffled-the-sound-of-doors-closing-against/)

[Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/)

> [“The problem is always being the children’s mommy, or the minister’s wife and never being myself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/the-problem-is-always-being-the-children-s-mommy-or-the-minister-s/)

[Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/)

> [“The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/the-problem-lay-buried-unspoken-for-many-years-in-the-minds-of/)

[Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/)

> [The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/the-man-who-is-extremely-and-dangerously-hungry-has-no-other-interest/)

[Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/who-knows-what-women-can-be-when-they-are-finally-free-to-become/)

[Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/if-women-s-role-in-life-is-limited-solely-to-housewife-mother-it/)

[Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/)

> [The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/the-feminine-mystique-has-succeeded-in-burying-millions-of-american/)

[Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/i-can-t-point-to-any-major-episodes-of-sexual-discrimination-in-my/)

[Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/the-feminine-mystique-elevated-by-freudian-theory-into-a-scientific/)

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