Quotes by : Betty Friedan

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,....

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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