Quotes by : Betty Friedan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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