Betty Naomi Friedan Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Betty Naomi Friedan When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman. Betty Naomi Friedan Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered 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 Naomi Friedan American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror. Betty Naomi Friedan 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 Naomi Friedan It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. Betty Naomi Friedan
