Betty Friedan Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.

  Betty Friedan

  Husband, Home, Son

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

• We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Husband, Home

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

• 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

• Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?

  Betty Friedan

  Home, Nursing, Acceptance

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Fountain of Age”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

• Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Home, Names

• There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother's health, well-being and autonomy and control of her own destiny is maximized by work outside the home.

  Betty Friedan

  Mother, Children, Home

  Source: www.pbs.org

• This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is somehow responsible for increasing juvenile delinquency or the increase in divorce rate, is just so much bullshit.

  Betty Friedan

  Home, Divorce, Ideas

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