Mystique Quotes

• The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

  Betty Friedan

  Women, Equality, Creative

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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

  Betty Friedan

  Women, Lost Youth, History

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

  Betty Friedan

  Women, Diversity, Enemy

  "The Christian Science Monitor", April 1, 1974.

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• 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

  Sex, America, Promise

  "Feminist icon Betty Friedan dies aged 85" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2006.

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• It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

  Betty Friedan

  Women, Live Life, Lost Youth

  "The Feminine Mystique".

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• Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Husband, Struggle

  The Feminine Mystique ch. 1 (1963)

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• The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Men, Effectiveness

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.176, Psychology Press

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• I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.

  Garrett Morris

  Peace, Ideas, Use

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In domestic life the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She "wants" to be at home, and because she is a woman she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.

  Rachel Cusk

  Home, Desire, Want

  "The simmering but stymied rage of stay-at-home mums" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2010.

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• The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.

  Betty Friedan

  Country, Women, Lost Youth

  The Feminine Mystique ch. 14 (1963)

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• A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

  Betty Friedan

  Sex, Men, Copying

  Betty Friedan (2010). “The Feminine Mystique”, p.509, W. W. Norton & Company

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  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”

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  Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

  Betty Friedan

  Real, Women, Memorable

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• The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - "Is this all?"

  Betty Friedan

  Years, Wife, House

  "The Feminine Mystique". Book by Betty Friedan. Chapter 1: "The Problem That Has No Name", opening lines, 1963.

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• Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

  Betty Friedan

  Mother, Children, Pain

  "The Feminine Mystique". Book by Betty Friedan, Ch. 1 "The Problem That Has No Name", 1963.

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• Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  World, Modern, Enigma

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• As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.

  Neil Young

  Talking

  "Neil Young: The Last American Hero" by Cameron Crowe, www.rollingstone.com. February 8, 1979.

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• The word 'professional' doesn't hold any magic or mystique. The people who really change the world are usually amateurs

  Dave Hampton

  Business, People, Magic

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• As soon as the dialogue between two people touches on something fundamental, essential, numinous, and a certain rapport is felt, it gives rise to a phenomenon which Lévy-Bruhl fittingly called participation mystique. It is an unconscious identity in which two individual psychic spheres interpenetrate to such a degree that it is impossible to say what belongs to whom.

  Carl Jung

  Psychics, Two, People

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• I think theres just this mystique of writing a book that appeals to people. A person has to really check their motives and say, Am I really being called by God to do this? Or is this just something that would look neat in my funeral? I dont mean to be harsh but I think a person really needs to, so they wont be disappointed.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express profound ideas and emotions have ideas and emotions more profound than the rest of us. It isn't so. The ability to express is a special gift with a special craft to support it and is spread fairly equally among the profound, the shallow, and the mediocre.

  Janet Burroway

  Writing, Ideas, People

  Janet Burroway (1982). “Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft”, Little Brown and Company

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• Brilliant. . . . Marriage Confidential is both laugh-out-loud funny and gasp-out-loud shocking, and nothing less than a Feminine Mystique for our time. Mark my words, your marriage will change after reading this book.

  Debby Applegate

  Book, Reading, Laughing

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• The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.

  Camille Paglia

  Males, Femme, Term

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.43, Canongate Books

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• The Bond was so big and mighty in my career, and it is the gift that just keeps giving. I wouldn't be here today talking about "The November Man" if it hadn't been for James Bond. So, there was a desire, a want, and a need to make this film, "The November Man." I loved the title. It has a sensuality and a mystique to it.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Men, Talking, Careers

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much about their lives; the rest was a mystery.

  Pixie Lott

  Stars, Real, Long

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