Betty Friedan Quotes

Misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born. So to me, feminism is probably the most important movement that you could embrace, because it's just basically another word for equality.

The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about 'shrieking sisterhoods' and 'disappointed spinsters' and rubbish of that sort.

If you're someone who geniunally believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the big history chart, you're the plague....It's just pointless and deadly.

The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public and said the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility, and then called her weak. It taught her that every pleasure must come as a favor from men and when, to gain it, she decked herself in paint and fine feathers, as she had been taught to do, it called her vain.

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Sexism is real.

I don't fear being judged as a misogynist.

I have experienced sexism multiple times, and I'm sure I will a lot more.

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don't know if it's ever not somewhere.

In sum, the truth is that we luxuriate in the comfortable assertion that women enjoy equality. We have salved our consciences by eliminating the more obvious discriminations like unequal rates of pay for work of equal value. But, in fact, we have not eliminated the inheritance of the millennia that women are lesser beings, an inheritance which still manifests itself in a whole range of prejudice and other forms of discrimination.

Of course I’m a feminist…if you’re not for the equal treatment of men and women, then you’re a fascist.

If you're not a feminist, you're part of the problem.

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

Now, how can I be anti-woman? I even judged the Miss America pageant.

You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!

'Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of American culture and society,' and I'm sure in politics, you would have to acknowledge that it has worked.

Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.

At one point, 'feminist' became a pejorative term. How did that happen? If you're a feminist, you're basically saying you're a humanist.

We don't need to be feminist in my generation.

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them. I don't get their point. I don't know why feminists have it out for me, but that's their problem, not mine.

As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice began to grow exponentially.