Betty Friedan Quotes About Housewives

Quotes about: Housewives

• The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife - freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

  Betty Friedan

  Dream, Grandmother, Envy

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

• ...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps...they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.

  Betty Friedan

  Growing Up, Mind, Suffering

• I loved my kids. And I loved my house, and I loved a lot of things about my life in the 1950s. But there were a lot like me in that era, very overeducated housewives.

  Betty Friedan

  Kids, House, Eras

  Source: www.pbs.org

• If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.

  Betty Friedan

  Mother, Children, Home

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Fountain of Age”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

• American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.

  Betty Friedan

  Brain, Full Potential, Needs

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

• 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

  Mother, Mean, Home

  "LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW : Betty Friedan : Beyond the 'Feminine Mystique:' A New Era of Women's Rights". Interview with Robert Scheer, articles.latimes.com. April 26, 1992.

• American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife - but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren't just housewives, they were community leaders.

  Betty Friedan

  Community, Leader, Frustrated

  Source: www.pbs.org

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