Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to be themselves.” — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The glorification of the 'woman's role, then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance to treat women as complete human beings;… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“A woman today who has no goal, no purpose, no ambition patterning her days into the future, making her stretch and grow… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“Woman's sexual problems are, in this sense, by-products of the suppression of her basic need to grow and fulfill her potentialities as… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who have never risked… — 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… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
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
