Feminine Mystique Quotes

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

  Betty Friedan

  Women, Lost Youth, History

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). "La mística femenina"

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• En casi todos los campos profesionales, tanto en los negocios como en las artes y las ciencias, las mujeres siguen siendo tratadas como ciudadanas de segunda clase. Sería un gran servicio decir a las chicas que planean trabajar en la sociedad que esperen esta sutil e incómoda discriminación; decirles que no se callen y esperen que desaparezca, sino que luchen contra ella. Una chica no debe esperar privilegios especiales por razón de su sexo, pero tampoco debe "adaptarse" a los prejuicios y la discriminación.

  Betty Friedan

  Chica, Arte, Sexo

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• No podemos seguir ignorando esa voz dentro de las mujeres que dice: 'Quiero algo más que mi marido, mis hijos y mi casa'.

  Betty Friedan

  Hijos, Esposo, Hogar

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). "La mística femenina"

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• Todas las mujeres de los suburbios luchan solas contra ello. Mientras hacía las camas, compraba la comida, combinaba el material de las fundas, comía bocadillos de mantequilla de cacahuete con sus hijos, hacía de chófer de Cub Scouts y Brownies, se acostaba junto a su marido por la noche, temía hacerse incluso a sí misma la pregunta silenciosa: "¿Esto es todo?

  Betty Friedan

  Hijos, Esposo, Lucha

  La mística femenina cap. 1 (1963)

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• The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous. But I think that education, and only education, has saved, and can continue to save, American women from the greater dangers of the feminine mystique.

  Betty Friedan

  Thinking, Keys, Unnecessary

  betty friedan (1963). "el bestseller más polémico del año la mística femenina"

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  Una niña no debe esperar privilegios especiales por razón de su sexo, pero tampoco debe "adaptarse" a los prejuicios y la discriminación.

  Betty Friedan

  Girl, Sex, Women

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). "La mística femenina"

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  Envejecer no es "perder la juventud", sino una nueva etapa de oportunidades y fortaleza.

  Betty Friedan

  Cumpleaños, Fuerza, Inspiración

  "Cómo vivir más, mejor y más sabiamente". Betty Friedan, Parade Magazine (pp. 4-6), 20 de marzo de 1994.

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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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• Cuando dejó de ajustarse a la imagen convencional de la feminidad, por fin empezó a disfrutar de ser mujer.

  Betty Friedan

  Women, Lost Youth, Being A Woman

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). "La mística femenina"

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• Over and over again, stories in women's magazines insist that women can know fulfillment only at the moment of giving birth to a child. They deny the years when she can no longer look forward to giving birth, even if she repeats the act over and over again. In the feminine mystique, there is no other way for a woman to dream of creation or of the future. There is no other way she can even dream about herself, except as her children's mother, her husband's wife.

  Betty Friedan

  Madre, Sueño, Hijos

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• La mujer se ve perjudicada por su sexo, y perjudica a la sociedad, bien copiando servilmente el modelo de avance del hombre en las profesiones, bien negándose a competir con el hombre en absoluto.

  Betty Friedan

  Sexo, Hombres, Copia

  Betty Friedan (2010). "La mística femenina", p.509, W. W. Norton & Company

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• La única manera para una mujer, como para un hombre, de encontrarse a sí misma, de conocerse como persona, es mediante un trabajo creativo propio.

  Betty Friedan

  Women, Equality, Creative

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). "La mística femenina"

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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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• 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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• Sostenemos que estas verdades son evidentes por sí mismas: que todos los hombres y mujeres son creados iguales.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspiración, Mujeres, 4 th Of July

  Declaración de Sentimientos, Primeros Derechos de la Mujer

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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

  Madre, Hijos, Dolor

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

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• 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.

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• It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.

  Betty Friedan

  School, College, Government

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). "La mística femenina"

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• Si el divorcio ha aumentado un mil por cien, no culpemos al movimiento feminista. Culpa a los obsoletos roles sexuales en los que se basaban nuestros matrimonios.

  Betty Friedan

  Sexo, divorcio, justicia

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• The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a life plan that can encompass marriage and motherhood, is the kind that was forbidden by the feminine mystique, the lifelong commitment to an art or science, to politics or profession. 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.

  Betty Friedan

  Art, Sex, Commitment

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• Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can't be the perfect clone of the male superman and the perfect clone of the feminine mystique.

  Betty Friedan

  Perfect, Males, Bears

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• Las mujeres tienen con Friedan una deuda incalculable por La mística femenina. La domesticidad no era una historia satisfactoria de la vida de una mujer inteligente.

  Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

  Inteligente, Historias, Deuda

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• The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at the dead feminists. It is the joke that Freudian thought played on living women, twisting the memory of the feminists into the man-eating phantom of the feminine mystique, shriveling the very wish to be more than just a wife and mother.

  Betty Friedan

  Mother, Memories, Real

  betty friedan (1963). "el bestseller más polémico del año la mística femenina"

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• I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women's magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the "feminine mystique."

  Betty Friedan

  Editors, Trying, Magazines

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