When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
Betty FriedanIt 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.
Betty FriedanMen are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.
Betty Friedan