186 Quotes by Betty Friedan

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up.

I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.

I just decided that I didn't want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn't active enough for me.

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

Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.

If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.

Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines.

It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.