Betty Friedan 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.

Betty Friedan

• American

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• When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Together

• God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • God
  • Power

• The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Important
  • Play
  • Enough

• I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Way
  • Kind
  • Look

• The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Lies

• When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Made
  • Artists
  • Back

• I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Think
  • Boy
  • Back

• Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Life
  • World
  • Die

• AppStudio is a native app builder that allows you to build the app and automatically deploy it on Android, iPhone, and Windows. It lets you design it once and then implement it anywhere.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Design
  • Windows
  • iPhone

• No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Good
  • Actor
  • Say

• When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Wall
  • Face

• When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Me
  • Child

• A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • She
  • Job
  • Professional

• Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Choice

• You discover yourself through the research of your work.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Work
  • Learning
  • Research

• Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Slavery
  • Weed
  • Soil

• I started modeling with a very negative part of me – I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Negative

• I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Starting

• In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• 'Portlandia' - love it. I can consume three episodes of it without even realizing I'm watching TV.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Love
  • Three
  • Without

• 'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.

  

  Mal Peet
  • American
  • Deep
  • Thought

• The man is ugly, the man is evil, and the man is in love. This is gonna be an American classic.

  

  Joe Bob Briggs
  • American
  • Evil
  • Ugly

• 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.

  

  Betty Friedan
  • American