Betty Friedan Quotes About Discrimination

Quotes about: Discrimination

• A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

  Betty Friedan

  Girl, Sex, Women

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

• In almost every professional field, in business and in the arts and sciences, women are still treated as second-class citizens. It would be a great service to tell girls who plan to work in society to expect this subtle, uncomfortable discrimination-tell them not to be quiet, and hope it will go away, but fight it. A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

  Betty Friedan

  Girl, Art, Sex

• I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

  Betty Friedan

  Mother, Energy, Use

  Source: www.pbs.org

• If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. But as a women you didn't even think about discrimination.

  Betty Friedan

  Thinking, Psychology, Goes On

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

  Betty Friedan

  Feminist, Prejudice, Discrimination

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Life So Far: A Memoir”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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