Betty Friedan Feminine Mystique Quotes

#1. Put on the company hat. (Be willing to accept actions that may have a negative impact upon a particular component but are in the best interests of the company as a whole.)

Reginald H. Jones

#2. We were gods then. But even gods must descend from their high thrones upon occasion.

Dan Simmons

#3. When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.

Betty Friedan

#4. Woman's sexual problems are, in this sense, by-products of the suppression of her basic need to grow and fulfill her potentialities as a human being, potentialities which the mystique of feminine fulfillment ignores.

Betty Friedan

#5. The Bible lists in Hebrews 11 the heroes of the faith ... who were tortured, imprisoned, stoned, torn apart, and killed by the sword. They didn't wear designer jeans but went about in animal skins, destitute and tormented.

Billy Graham

#6. And my stupid stupid heart will never stop loving you

Tracy Bilen

#7. I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women's magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the "feminine mystique."

Betty Friedan

#8. I ain't no runaway, I'm a run-to.

Neal Shusterman

#9. We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn't mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes.

Betty Friedan

#10. With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.

Jo Ann Emerson

#11. I remember also speaking to a reporter on Gay News who enquired about my attitude to Gay Dogs and reassuring him of my compassionate attitude to homosexuality among dogs, while secretly feeling they ought to be whipped.

Auberon Waugh

#12. My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.

Natalie Massenet

#13. A Leaf Man's got to go where the wind blows.

Lois Ehlert

#14. Man invents nothing God did not create first.

Mitch Albom

#15. We must not think that faith itself is the soul's rest; it is only the means of it. We cannot find rest in any work or duty of our own, but we may find it in Christ, whom faith apprehends for justification and salvation.

John Flavel

#16. My kisses fell, happy as embers.

Pablo Neruda

#17. Seek renewal of mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. It was the era that I later analyzed, the "feminine mystique" era, [when] "career woman" was a dirty word. And so I didn't want a career anymore. [But] I had to do something. So I started freelancing for women's magazines.

Betty Friedan

#19. And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan.

Jenna Elfman

#20. Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can't be the perfect clone of the male superman and the perfect clone of the feminine mystique.

Betty Friedan

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

Betty Friedan

#22. The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous. But I think that education, and only education, has saved, and can continue to save, American women from the greater dangers of the feminine mystique.

Betty Friedan

#23. 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.

Betty Friedan