Best Betty Friedan Quotes
- When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman. Began
- Getting older is an adventure, not a problem. Adventure
- Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it. Advice
- Development can indeed continue beyond childhood and youth, beyond the seventies. It can continue until the very end of life, given purposes that challenge and… Abilities
- You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much Behind
- 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 she… Bear
- Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that. Admit
- I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I did it. And… Book
- Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone ... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before… All
- I'm my age and I feel glorious. Age
- Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework… Any
- We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people,… Ago
- Aging will create the music of the coming century. Aging
- Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. Age
- Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were… Bears
- Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves. Denigration
- No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. Floor
- Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children,… Afraid
- It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you… Answer
- Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different, and the choice to be generative… Child
- It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government… Alleys
- 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… Act
- The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her… Creative
- The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous. But… American
- You can have it all, just not all at the same time. All