Betty Naomi Friedan Famous Quotes
"American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror."
"If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based."
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
"Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night-she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-Is this all"
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
Betty Naomi Friedan Quotations
"Isn't it funny how we'll look out the window at the moon, and then we notice it's not the moon but a streetlight Also what's funny is how we do this every night."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
Rod Serling
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
Thomas Carlyle
"Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate."
David Pratt
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Hellen Keller
"Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry."
Umberto Eco
"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live."
Johann von Goethe
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is one universal gesture that has one universal message--a smile
Valerie Sokolosky
"I believe that if i should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps."
Benito Perez Galdos