Always Quote by Laurie Graham

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

The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a…

— Betty Friedan

It was the era that I later analyzed, the "feminine mystique" era, [when] "career woman" was a dirty word. And so I didn't want…

— Betty Friedan

'The Feminine Mystique' goads me to gratitude that, thanks to forerunners like Betty Friedan, I've had the opportunity to pursue a career.

— Lionel Shriver

In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine…

— Edmund White

Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion,…

— Betty Friedan

The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a life plan…

— Betty Friedan

We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn't mean they…

— Betty Friedan

I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women's magazines. That it threatened the very world they were…

— Betty Friedan

Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can't be the perfect clone of the male superman…

— Betty Friedan

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their…

— Betty Friedan

“The feminine mystique, elevated by Freudian theory into a scientific religion, sounded a single, overprotective, life-restricting, future-denying note for women. Girls who grew up…

— Betty Friedan

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

— Betty Friedan

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…

— Debby Applegate

That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification…

— John Kenneth Galbraith