Betty Friedan Quotes

Neither woman nor man lives by work or love alone.... The human self defines itself and grows thro...

We couldn't possibly know where it would lead but we knew it had to be done.

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy bei...

Men weren’t really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystiqu...

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominanc...

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of...

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

We have gone on too long blaming or pitying the mothers who devour their children, who sow the seeds...

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative...

Woman's sexual problems are, in this sense, by-products of the suppression of her basic need to grow...

Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of m...

The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange st...

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched sli...

In almost every professional field, in business and in the arts and sciences, women are still treate...

It is wrong to keep spelling out unnecessary choices that make women unconsciously resist either com...

If a woman had a problem in the 1950's and 1960's, she knew that something must be wrong with her ma...

What Friedan gave to the world was, "the problem that has no name." She not only named it but dissec...

The unpleasant image of the feminists today resembles less the feminists themselves than the image f...

It is not possible to preserve one's identity by adjusting for any length of time to a frame of refe...

Why should anyone raise an eyebrow because a latter-day Einstein’s wife expects her husband to put a...

The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolu...

When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, the...

It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilitie...

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prej...

The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for wo...

American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical ...

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

There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who ...

A woman today who has no goal, no purpose, no ambition patterning her days into the future, making h...

The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not usefu...

You can have it all, just not all at the same time.

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan yo...

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When ...