This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women's magazines. That it threatened the very world… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be in a situation where I was broader than the boys, which I was, in the academic world. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a… — 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 new mystique is that women can have it all. There's a whole new generation of women today, flogging themselves to compete… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Certain signs, some of them visible to the layman as well as the scientist, indicate that we have been watching an ice… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I just decided that I didn't want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at… — 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
