Betty Friedan

"The problem that has no name is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease."

"Friedan: I think it's partly a reaction against feminism, partly envy of feminism, and partly partly a real need of men to evolve through the burden of the masculine mystique, the burden of machismo."

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

"We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it’s hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!"

"A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination."

"Friedan: I thought it was absolutely outrageous that the Silence of the Lambs won four Oscars. I'm not saying that the movie shouldn't have been shows. I'm not denying the movie was an artistic triump…"

"The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. There is no other way."

"Friedan: A celebration of women's bodies is all right with me so long as there is no denial of the personhood of women. I suppose sometimes women are sex objects -- and men are too, by the way. It's t…"