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
While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and… — 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
We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Over and over again, stories in women's magazines insist that women can know fulfillment only at the moment of giving birth to… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities. — 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
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
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