Betty Friedan Quotes

You see... you don't want to let them polarize family issues and benefits to split the workers. I think there's more usefulness in a benefits package that serves both. - Betty Friedan

Women are certainly moving. Every day you read about women in the most God-awful, unforeseen places. I think it's really happening. And for women in many countries, it's a new experience to be organizing. - Betty Friedan

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman. - Betty Friedan

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy! - Betty Friedan

We may need new forms of union protection. It hasn't been thought through. And I'm not sure the AFL-CIO is on top of this. - Betty Friedan

There needs to be bolder thinking... on how to measure the quality of life of men and women in the work force. Currently, success is measured by material advancements. We need to readjust the definition of success to account for time outside of work and satisfaction of life, not just the dollars-and-cents bottom line. - 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 fulfillment. - Betty Friedan

The problem that has no name - which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities - is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease. - Betty Friedan

The glorification of the 'woman's role, then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance to treat women as complete human beings; for the less real function that role has, the more it is decorated with meaningless details to conceal its empt. - Betty Friedan

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