Feminine mystique Quote by Betty Friedan

“They love the fact that they are recognized as totally feminine in a sexually attractive kind of way. Forget all about the role of…

— Rick Johnson

“It is quite edifying to hear women speculate upon the worthlessness and the duration of beauty. But though virtue is a much finer thing,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“The beauty myth of the present is more insidious than any mystique of femininity yet: A century ago, Nora slammed the door of the…

— Naomi Wolf

“I know women whose entire personas are woven from a benign mediocrity. Their lives are a list of shortcomings: the unappreciative boyfriend, the extra…

— Gillian Flynn

“We're all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they'd like to be seen. Hollow vessels of…

— Libba Bray

“...a much younger woman, one of those round-faced, tiny-featured women who were touted as beauties though they were not in fact particularly beautiful. They…

— Michael Cunningham

“Let's face it: Today silly women mired in the sophistries and seductions of the world, and haughty women obsessed with themselves, abound. Regrettably, many…

— Sheri L. Dew

“That day, instead, I saw clearly the mothers of the old neighbourhood. They were nervous, they were acquiescent. They were silent, with tight lips…

— Elena Ferrante

“At the logic of fashion, such once-popular perversions as pedophilia and sodomy will become derided cliches, as amusing as pottery ducks on suburban walls.”

— J.G. Ballard

Sometimes, there can be a slightly condescending assumption that anything unlikable about a female character is a mistake, as if they're a contestant in…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“But for this epoch we must wait—wait, perhaps, till kings and nobles, enlightened by reason, and, preferring the real dignity of man to childish…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect. Decedents of the beautiful women that fought so hard for centuries…

— Irena Deneva