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Betty Friedan on Women

1921–2006 United States

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The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women.

The Feminine Mystique (1963)

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

The Feminine Mystique (1963)

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. There is no other way.

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.

The Feminine Mystique (1963)

If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class. This is [...] female chauvinism.

It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women's Movement (1976)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Betty Friedan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.