Quotes from book
The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique is a book by Betty Friedan that is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States. It was published on February 19, 1963 by W. W. Norton.
Source: The Feminine Mystique (1963), Ch. 14 "A New Life Plan for Women".
“It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.”
Source: The Feminine Mystique (1963), Ch. 14 "A New Life Plan for Women".
Source: The Feminine Mystique
Interviews with Betty Friedan, Janann Sherman, ed. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2002, ISBN 1578064805, p. x.
Source: The Feminine Mystique
Source: The Feminine Mystique
Source: The Feminine Mystique (1963), Ch. 11 "The Sex-Seekers".
Source: The Feminine Mystique (1963), Ch. 14 "A New Life Plan for women".
Source: The Feminine Mystique (1963), Ch. 1 "The Problem That Has No Name".
“The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.”
Ch 13 "The Forfeited Self".
The Feminine Mystique (1963)
Source: The Feminine Mystique (1963), Ch. 14 "A New Life Plan for Women".
Source: The Feminine Mystique (1963), Ch. 1 "The Problem That Has No Name"
Source: The Feminine Mystique (1963), Ch. 14 "A New Life Plan for Women".
Ch 13 "The Forfeited Self".
The Feminine Mystique (1963)
“The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women.”
Opening lines, Ch. 1 "The Problem That Has No Name".
The Feminine Mystique (1963)
Context: 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?”
