Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan (1921-2006) was a US feminist who is known as "mother of the new feminist movement". She wrote The Feminine Mystique in 1963 which largely precipitated birth of women's liberation movement. She co-founded First Women's Bank in 1973.Wisdom & Quotes
- We couldn't possibly know where it would lead, but we knew it had to be done.
- I'm my age and I feel glorious.
- It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
- If... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realise one's full potential, their (American housewives') comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.
- Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
- Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.
Shiv Kumar