Being a woman Quote by Betty Friedan

“Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can be sold back to women who have become…

— Laurie Penny

“Femininity is now being integrated into the sensual world. It can no longer stand as its own entity in this new era. Being a…

— Lebo Grand

When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.

— Walter Savage Landor

After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.

— Germaine Greer

“The culture at large had exerted the same pressure on her that it exerts on all women, namely to feel insecure about herself regardless…

— Tom McAllister

As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice…

— Susan Faludi

You know, she was a girl. She was a female. And she wasn't like, trying to compete in a man's world and she wasn't…

— Jenna Elfman

The demand that women "return to femininity" is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to a fabled…

— Susan Faludi

“Since, beginning with the same premise and examining the same body of anthropological evidence, she now arrives at a slightly different sexual role for…

— Betty Friedan

She did not want to be that woman - the one of whom they spoke. She had never planned to be that woman. Somehow,…

— Sarah MacLean

Modern woman is no longer satisfied to be the beloved of a man; she looks for understanding, comradeship; she wants to be treated as…

— Emma Goldman