Episode 28: The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
“The only way for a woman…to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.”
“The only way for a woman…to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.”
“One is not born, but rather becomes, woman.”
“policymakers always seem to find money for control and domination – for prisons, weapons, wars.”
“We call on the governments of the world to encourage women everywhere to take a more active part”
“Man must be pleased; but him to please / Is woman’s pleasure”
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
“Every woman should be absolute mistress of her own body.”
“Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men’s work at half men’s wages”
“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one’s life.”
“The faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out.”