Feminism Quote by Betty Friedan

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

— Romola Garai

“Enabling mothers and babies to fulfil this period of vital nurture is not a favour to women; it is a contribution to the whole…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“I realized, listening to the silences that fell sometimes in my interview groups, that there are things that are sayable and unsayable about motherhood…

— Judith Warner

“I do not think any young woman has a right to make a choice that may be disagreeable and inconvenient to the principal part…

— Jane Austen

Feminism or the family? Carried to excess maybe. I have insisted that women cannot be defined solely in those terms. But for a great…

— Betty Friedan

The myth of motherhood as martyrdom has been bred into women, and behavioral scientists have helped embellish the myth with their ideas of correct…

— Anonymous

“Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to…

— Donna Ball

“Motherhood—the way too many of us do it alone now—without an exaltation of female relatives, without a heft of knowing matrons to buoy us…

— Alexandra Fuller

“the education of women is apt to be confounded with the emancipation of women, and that it is only so that it can be…

— Leo Tolstoy

A lot of women feel like they should be enjoying motherhood, they should be fulfilled and shouldn't be thinking, 'I wish I didn't have…

— Sophie Hannah

I love how feminism is often blamed for giving women too many choices. Like this is a bad thing.

— Justine Musk

Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find…

— Margaret Mead