Betty Friedan Quotes

Betty Friedan Quotes. Below is a collection of famous Betty Friedan quotes. Here you can find the most popular and greatest quotes by Betty Friedan. Share these quotations with your friends and family.

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.

By Betty Friedan
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.

By Betty Friedan
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

By Betty Friedan
Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.

By Betty Friedan