Betty Friedan Quotes

I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification

I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.

Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue.

It's a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy.

I'm just waiting for the moment where it's accepted that women are just as sexual as men without women having to be overtly sexy just to prove how 'liberated' they are.

As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.

Tradition has made women cowardly.

The overpowering male sex drive must be channeled toward possession of females.

We need to understand that femininity is not weakness. And our society, for some reason, equates the two.

American women today want too much liberty; that's why they're unhappy. Because when an American man meets a woman, he treats her like a pal instead of a woman.

The plight of the actor, even if he's a star, is the plight of the women's movement. They're saying the same thing to us: get into bed, give me a good time, then give me something to eat, go get the laundry, be a good girl.

I've been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career.

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.

In any film, there are 10 male roles for 1 female role, especially in the action films. They're heavy with the guys.

I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.

I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.

Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.

However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.