Feminine Mystique Quotes
- The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at the dead feminists.… — Betty Friedan
- Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if… — Betty Friedan
- Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life. — Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
- Brilliant. . . . Marriage Confidential is both laugh-out-loud funny and gasp-out-loud shocking, and nothing less than a Feminine Mystique for our time. Mark my… — Debby Applegate
- 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… — Betty Friedan
- 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… — Betty Friedan
- The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. — Betty Friedan