Betty Friedan quotes
Betty Friedan was an American feminist, writer, and activist, best known for her groundbreaking book "The Feminine Mystique." Her work helped ignite the second wave of feminism and brought attention to issues facing women in society. She became a leading voice for gender equality and co-founded the National Organization for Women. Here are 43 of her quotes:
Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
Betty Friedan
American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.
Betty Friedan
The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife - freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother ... had found true feminine fulfilment.
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan
Occupation: American Activist
Born: February 4, 1921
Died: February 4, 2006
Quotes count: 43
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