The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.
- Betty Friedan
More Quotes By Betty Friedan
- The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to...
- When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
- Over and over again, stories in women’s magazines insist that women can know fulfillment only at the moment...
- The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange...
- Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
- We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.
- The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
- Some people think I’m saying, ‘Women of the world unite — you have nothing to lose but your...
- Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
- If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don’t blame the women’s movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles...
- In almost every professional field, in business and in the arts and sciences, women are still treated as...
- Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material,...
- Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
- Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is...
- A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty,
‘Who am I, and what do...
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