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A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.

A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.

Betty Friedan
Children, Husband, Selfish

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)

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”

I understood somehow my mother's frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn't have a real use of her ability.

Betty Friedan
Mother, Husband, Children
Source: www.pbs.org

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”

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