Betty Friedan Quotes about Home

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

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”

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

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

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

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.

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”

Betty Friedan Quotes about Home

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