There are some die-hard male chauvinist pigs and there are some Neanderthal women who are threatened by equality - but the great… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The media and even, to some degree, leaders of women's organizations don't understand that the women's movement is an absolute part of… — 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
What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life… — 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
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
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… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“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… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
