A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.
Betty Friedan[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.
Betty FriedanThe feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.
Betty FriedanI have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be.
Betty FriedanEach suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?
Betty Friedan