Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

- Betty Friedan

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

- Betty Friedan

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

- Betty Friedan

A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wa…

- Betty Friedan

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

- Betty Friedan

Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.

- Betty Friedan

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never face…

- Betty Friedan

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

- Betty Friedan

If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. B…

- Betty Friedan