Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Faith is accepting that everything, including who you are, develops in its perfect order.

Lisa A. Mininni

#3. It does a soul good let the waters run once in awhile-the healing waters. -pg. 85

Wm. Paul Young

#4. 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

#5. Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others.

Bryant McGill

#6. 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

#7. The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.

William Cameron Townsend

#8. Free drinks have no carbs.

Nicki Elson

#9. Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.

Libba Bray

#10. We're all unique, just never in the ways we imagine.

Kate Morton

#11. 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

#12. Our Higher Self is the most intimate thing we could possibly know; eternity is the most comfortable home we could possibly fine.

Deepak Chopra

#13. The baby's beauty lies on its' pure-hearted.

Toba Beta

#14. The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

Stendhal

#15. 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

#16. If a country successfully translate the principles of truth and honesty into their social life, then that country experiences peace, tranquillity and serenity.

Sunday Adelaja

#17. 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

#18. I do this so you cannot help but hear. A wise man views a moonless night with fear.

Patrick Rothfuss

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

Betty Friedan

#20. 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

#21. The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.

Gretchen Rubin

#22. 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