Betty Friedan, the author ofThe Feminine Mystique, helped begin a new interest inwomen's rights, debunking the myth that all middle-class women were happy in the homemaker role. In 1966, Betty Friedan was one of the key founders of theNational Organization for Women(NOW). This is an infor...
13. “The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully…is the kind that was forbidden by the feminine mystique…”— Betty Friedan 14. “Twisting thememoryof the feminists into the man-eating phantom of the feminine mystique, shriveling the very wish to be ...
68. No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.”—Betty Friedan 69. Sex pretty much cures everything.”—Chuck Palahniuk 70. “When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.”—Jim Morrison 71. “I make love with a focus and intensity that...
I had learned my own existentialism from her. It was The Second Sex that introduced me to that approach to reality and political responsibility... [and] led me to whatever original analysis of women's existence I have been able to contribute. – Betty Friedan I wish her well. She starte...
— Betty Friedan 113 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. — Agatha Christie 106 Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must...
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. Betty Friedan The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. Women Quotations by Betty Friedan
— Betty Friedan 76 Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key ...
My adolescence was quite miserable, when I look back on it, at least my early part of my adolescence. Because there was anti-Semitism in Peoria, and I didn't feel that when I was in elementary school. —Betty Friedan 0 Teenage Years Quotes ...
“Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” Betty Friedan “We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.” George Bernard Shaw “The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” Frank Lloyd Wright ...
A few years later,Gloria Steinemjoined forces with various notable feminists, likeBella AbzugandBetty Friedan,to build theNational Women’s Political Caucus. She led the launching of the feminist publication,Ms. Magazine. It had its first independent issue in January 1972. Under her leadership, th...