--- title: "137 Betty Friedan Quotes - Famous Journalist (The Feminine Mystique)" description: "Betty Friedan on self‑identity, women’s work equality, and balancing goals." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-betty-friedan-17596.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-betty-friedan-17596.jpg) # Betty Friedan (1921–2006) Journalist United States **137** quotes in **733** categories Betty Friedan says it’s easier to live through someone else than to become your own self. She points out that women’s push into jobs and the fight for equality can cause tension in society. She also reminds us that you can have everything you want, just not all at once. Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Betty Friedan was a journalist from the United States, best known for *The Feminine Mystique*. ## Quick Facts About Betty Friedan Born February 4, 1921 Died February 4, 2006 Nationality United States Profession Journalist Notable works The Feminine Mystique Known for The Feminine Mystique, The Fountain of Age, The Second Stage ## About Betty Friedan She co‑founded the National Organization for Women in 1966 and served as its first president, aiming to bring women into the mainstream of American society as equal partners with men. ## Awards & Honors National Women's Hall of Fame Humanist of the Year ## Quotes by Betty Friedan > [Aging will create the music of the coming century.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/aging-will-create-the-music-of-the-coming-century/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Aging](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aging/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb8/betty-friedan-3185_aging_aging-will-create-the-music-of-the-comin_2693228.jpg) > [No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/no-woman-gets-an-orgasm-from-shining-the-kitchen-floor/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f66/betty-friedan-3185_kitchen_no-woman-gets-an-orgasm-from-shining-the_2798259.jpg) > [He's a male chauvinistic piglet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/he-s-a-male-chauvinistic-piglet/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Chauvinistic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chauvinistic/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/494/betty-friedan-3185_inspirational_he-s-a-male-chauvinistic-piglet-1059384_1059384.jpg) > [Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/man-is-not-the-enemy-here-but-the-fellow-victim/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Enemy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enemy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/931/betty-friedan-3185_enemy_man-is-not-the-enemy-here-but-the-fellow_614341.jpg) > [You can have it all, just not all at the same time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/you-can-have-it-all-just-not-all-at-the-same-time/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b58/betty-friedan-3185_just_you-can-have-it-all-just-not-all-at-the_171902.jpg) > [Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/getting-older-is-an-adventure-not-a-problem/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Adventure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adventure/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/934/betty-friedan-3185_adventure_getting-older-is-an-adventure-not-a-prob_953715.jpg) > [I'm my age and I feel glorious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/i-m-my-age-and-i-feel-glorious/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Age](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/age/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/589/betty-friedan-3185_age_i-m-my-age-and-i-feel-glorious-2821576_2821576.jpg) > [I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/i-knew-one-thing-i-did-not-want-to-be-a-mommy-like-mommy/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/681/betty-friedan-3185_knew_i-knew-one-thing-i-did-not-want-to-be-a_2876388.jpg) > [Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/regardless-of-your-age-you-will-always-have-adventures-unexpected/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Adventure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adventure/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/494/betty-friedan-3185_adventure_regardless-of-your-age-you-will-always-h_1732791.jpg) > [Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/most-of-the-people-in-the-workforce-today-will-spend-some-years-when/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb1/betty-friedan-3185_children_most-of-the-people-in-the-workforce-toda_2743797.jpg) > [When I was in high school, even in college, I didn't have any real image of a career woman or a professional…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/when-i-was-in-high-school-even-in-college-i-didn-t-have-any-real/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Career](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/career/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b46/betty-friedan-3185_career_when-i-was-in-high-school-even-in-colleg_816096.jpg) > [The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/the-situation-of-women-and-men-is-not-comparable-to-worker-boss-or/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/105/betty-friedan-3185_black_the-situation-of-women-and-men-is-not-co_1067840.jpg) > [“Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to be themselves.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/who-knows-what-women-can-be-when-they-are-finally-free-to-be/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ae/betty-friedan-3185_freedom_who-knows-what-women-can-be-when-they-ar_1014633.jpg) > [When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/when-she-stopped-conforming-to-the-conventional-picture-of-femininity/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Being a woman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/being-a-woman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/581/betty-friedan-3185_being-a-woman_when-she-stopped-conforming-to-the-conve_2139982.jpg) > [Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/advice-i-don-t-offer-advice-not-my-business-your-life-is-what-you/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Advice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/advice/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/325/betty-friedan-3185_advice_advice-i-don-t-offer-advice-not-my-busin_1776041.jpg) > [The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/the-only-way-for-a-woman-as-for-a-man-to-find-herself-to-know-herself/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Creative](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creative/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d0/betty-friedan-3185_creative_the-only-way-for-a-woman-as-for-a-man-to_1335895.jpg) > [ It was the era that I later analyzed, the "feminine mystique" era, \[when\] "career woman" was a dirty word. And so I… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/it-was-the-era-that-i-later-analyzed-the-feminine-mystique-era-when/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Career](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/career/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60f/betty-friedan-3185_career_it-was-the-era-that-i-later-analyzed-the_2655173.jpg) > [I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/i-won-a-really-big-fellowship-to-go-straight-on-to-get-my-ph-d-and-i/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Academic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/academic/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/715/betty-friedan-3185_academic_i-won-a-really-big-fellowship-to-go-stra_1651926.jpg) > [“A woman who is herself only a sexual object, lives finally in a world of objects, unable to touch in others the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/a-woman-who-is-herself-only-a-sexual-object-lives-finally-in-a-world/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Drama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/drama/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb2/betty-friedan-3185_identity_a-woman-who-is-herself-only-a-sexual-obj_1545416.jpg) > [I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/i-can-t-point-to-any-major-episodes-of-sexual-discrimination-in-my/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Ability](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ability/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf7/betty-friedan-3185_ability_i-can-t-point-to-any-major-episodes-of-s_364332.jpg) > [“There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who have never risked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/there-is-something-less-than-fully-human-in-those-who-have-never/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [American culture](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american-culture/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5a/betty-friedan-3185_american-culture_there-is-something-less-than-fully-human_566694.jpg) > [My adolescence was quite miserable, when I look back on it, at least my early part of my adolescence. Because there was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/my-adolescence-was-quite-miserable-when-i-look-back-on-it-at-least-my/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Adolescence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adolescence/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/615/betty-friedan-3185_adolescence_my-adolescence-was-quite-miserable-when_648375.jpg) > [I would have much rather been in the jalopy with the kids, going to Hunt's for hamburgers. But, when I entered high…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/i-would-have-much-rather-been-in-the-jalopy-with-the-kids-going-to/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Fraternity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fraternity/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c84/betty-friedan-3185_fraternity_i-would-have-much-rather-been-in-the-jal_1871821.jpg) > [We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/we-need-to-see-men-and-women-as-equal-partners-but-it-s-hard-to-think/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b74/betty-friedan-3185_equal_we-need-to-see-men-and-women-as-equal-pa_694222.jpg) > [In almost every professional field, in business and in the arts and sciences, women are still treated as second-class citizens. It would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/in-almost-every-professional-field-in-business-and-in-the-arts-and/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9a/betty-friedan-3185_art_in-almost-every-professional-field-in-bu_2723124.jpg) > [It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/it-is-easier-to-live-through-someone-else-than-to-complete-yourself/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b67/betty-friedan-3185_answers_it-is-easier-to-live-through-someone-els_172986.jpg) > [Over and over again, stories in women's magazines insist that women can know fulfillment only at the moment of giving birth to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/over-and-over-again-stories-in-women-s-magazines-insist-that-women/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Birth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/birth/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d0f/betty-friedan-3185_birth_over-and-over-again-stories-in-women-s-m_711512.jpg) > [The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/the-man-who-is-extremely-and-dangerously-hungry-has-no-other-interest/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55a/betty-friedan-3185_backgrounds_the-man-who-is-extremely-and-dangerously_243770.jpg) > [I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/i-never-set-out-to-write-a-book-to-change-women-s-lives-to-change/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f98/betty-friedan-3185_book_i-never-set-out-to-write-a-book-to-chang_2592570.jpg) > [Feminism or the family? Carried to excess maybe. I have insisted that women cannot be defined solely in those terms. But for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/feminism-or-the-family-carried-to-excess-maybe-i-have-insisted-that/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Choices](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/choices/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a7/betty-friedan-3185_choices_feminism-or-the-family-carried-to-excess_2854384.jpg) > [Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/each-suburban-wife-struggles-with-it-alone-as-she-made-the-beds/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07a/betty-friedan-3185_bed_each-suburban-wife-struggles-with-it-alo_1646119.jpg) > [Having expressed the rage against the laws and conditions that oppressed them - maybe even excess anger in the beginning was directed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/having-expressed-the-rage-against-the-laws-and-conditions-that/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c44/betty-friedan-3185_able_having-expressed-the-rage-against-the-la_2727230.jpg) > [“The physicist's relativity, which in recent years has changed our whole approach to scientific knowledge, is harder, and therefore easier to understand,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/the-physicist-s-relativity-which-in-recent-years-has-changed-our/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Mental state](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mental-state/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/903/betty-friedan-3185_mental-state_the-physicist-s-relativity-which-in-rece_2996328.jpg) > [“It would be half-wrong to say it started with Sigmund Freud. It did not really start, in America, until the 1940s. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/it-would-be-half-wrong-to-say-it-started-with-sigmund-freud-it-did/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Feminine mystique](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feminine-mystique/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b4/betty-friedan-3185_feminine-mystique_it-would-be-half-wrong-to-say-it-started_1600842.jpg) > [“It is recognised now that Freud never gave proper attention, even in man, to growth of the ego or self: 'the impulse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/it-is-recognised-now-that-freud-never-gave-proper-attention-even-in/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/354/betty-friedan-3185_full-potential_it-is-recognised-now-that-freud-never-ga_535299.jpg) > [“The feminine mystique, elevated by Freudian theory into a scientific religion, sounded a single, overprotective, life-restricting, future-denying note for women. Girls who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/the-feminine-mystique-elevated-by-freudian-theory-into-a-scientific/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Feminine mystique](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feminine-mystique/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/651/betty-friedan-3185_feminine-mystique_the-feminine-mystique-elevated-by-freudi_387910.jpg) > [“What Friedan gave to the world was, "the problem that has no name." She not only named it but dissected it. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/what-friedan-gave-to-the-world-was-the-problem-that-has-no-name-she/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Activism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/activism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a2/betty-friedan-3185_activism_what-friedan-gave-to-the-world-was-the-p_3203743.jpg) > [“The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/the-problem-lay-buried-unspoken-for-many-years-in-the-minds-of/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [American women](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american-women/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c09/betty-friedan-3185_american-women_the-problem-lay-buried-unspoken-for-many_237785.jpg) > [“The insights, interpretations both of theory and fact, and the implicit values of this book are inevitably my own. But whether or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/the-insights-interpretations-both-of-theory-and-fact-and-the-implicit/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [American woman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american-woman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e11/betty-friedan-3185_american-woman_the-insights-interpretations-both-of-the_967829.jpg) > [“We have gone on too long blaming or pitying the mothers who devour their children, who sow the seeds of progressive dehumanization,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-friedan/we-have-gone-on-too-long-blaming-or-pitying-the-mothers-who-devour/) [Betty Friedan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-friedan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e2/betty-friedan-3185_children_we-have-gone-on-too-long-blaming-or-pity_1728835.jpg) ## Betty Friedan by topic [Feminism (50)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feminism/betty-friedan/) [Men 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