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Betty Friedan  Quotes
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

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FeminismWry-Humor
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Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at...

—Betty Friedan

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ExistentialismFeminismHousekeeping
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We have gone on too long blaming or pitying the mothers who devour their children, who sow the seeds of progressive dehumanization, because they have never grown to full humanity themselves. If the mother is...

—Betty Friedan

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FeminismGender-Stereotypes
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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

—Betty Friedan

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FeminismHousekeepingOrgasm
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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

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FeminismGenderGender-Studies
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The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed into the background. ‘But what happens to man’s desires when there...

—Betty Friedan

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FoodHungerMen
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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...

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Feminism
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It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a...

—Betty Friedan

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CompletionFeminismIdentity
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It is wrong to keep spelling out unnecessary choices that make women unconsciously resist either commitment or motherhood–and that hold back recognition of the needed social changes.

—Betty Friedan

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Feminism
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It is not possible to preserve one’s identity by adjusting for any length of time to a frame of reference that is in itself destructive to it. It is very hard indeed for a human...

—Betty Friedan

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FeminismGender-IdentityIdentity
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Why should anyone raise an eyebrow because a latter-day Einstein’s wife expects her husband to put aside that lifeless theory of relativity and help her with the work that is supposed to be the essence...

—Betty Friedan

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Betty-FriedanFeminismThe-Feminine-Mystique
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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.

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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

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FeminismWomen-S-History
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When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women’s passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of...

—Betty Friedan

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Feminine-MystiqueFeminismSexism
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The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century...

—Betty Friedan

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Feminism
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What Friedan gave to the world was, “the problem that has no name.” She not only named it but dissected it. The advances of science, the development of labor-saving appliances, the development of the suburbs:...

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ActivismFeminism
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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 I think that education, and only education, has saved, and...

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EducationFeminism
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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

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In almost every professional field, in business and in the arts and sciences, women are still treated as second-class citizens. It would be a great service to tell girls who plan to work in society...

—Betty Friedan

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