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Top 80 Betty Friedan Quotes (2024 Update)

Betty Friedan Quote: “Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “You can have it all, just not all at the same time.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: ‘I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.’”
Betty Friedan Quote: “Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?”
Betty Friedan Quote: “No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “I’m my age and I feel glorious.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “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 Quote: “It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “It is both an irony and an indictment of the feminine mystique that it often forced the unhappy ones, the ugly ducklings, to find themselves, while girls who fitted the image became adjusted ‘happy’ housewives and have never found out who they are.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, ‘Who am I, and what do I want out of life?’ She mustn’t feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “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 stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “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 far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “Rights” have a dull sound to people who have grown up after they have been won.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “Men weren’t really the enemy – they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “He’s a male chauvinistic piglet.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “Why should women accept this picture of a half-life, instead of a share in the whole of human destiny?”
Betty Friedan Quote: “It’s easy to see the concrete details that trap the suburban housewife, the continual demands on her time. But the chains that bind her in her trap are the chains in her own mind and spirit. They are chains made up of mistaken ideas and misinterpreted facts, of incomplete truths and unreal choices. They are not easily seen and not easily shaken off.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “I wouldn’t be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “By now, abortion should be obsolete. And I – and probably a lot of other feminists – wish it were obsolete, because abortion, in itself, is not a value – it is simply the right to chose, which is an essential value.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man’s advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “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 not a contemptuous mockery.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “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 and the perfect clone of the feminine mystique.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!”
Betty Friedan Quote: “I understood somehow my mother’s frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn’t have a real use of her ability.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don’t blame the women’s movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question ‘who am I’ except the voice inside herself.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different, and the choice to be generative in other ways can at last be made, and is being made by many women now, without guilt.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “A woman today who has no goal, no purpose, no ambition patterning her days into the future, making her stretch and grow beyond that small score of years in which her body can fill its biological function, is committing a kind of suicide.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “I loved my kids. And I loved my house, and I loved a lot of things about my life in the 1950s. But there were a lot like me in that era, very overeducated housewives.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “It is my thesis that the core of the problem for women today is not sexual but a problem of identity – a stunting or evasion of growth that is perpetuated by the feminine mystique. It is my thesis that as the Victorian culture did not permit women to accept or gratify their basic need to grow and fulfil their potentialities as human beings, a need which is not solely defined by their sexual need.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “Aging will create the music of the coming century.”
Betty Friedan Quote: “Diversity has got to be a part of modern feminism, and I think that my feminism is stronger because its an inclusive thing. I won’t be backed into a corner that polarizes me against other women. And I wished they wouldn’t be either.”
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