"Am I saying that women must be liberated from motherhood? No. I am saying that motherhood will only be a joyous and r…"

"Men weren’t really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them …"

"We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it’s hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people,…"

"The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.…"

"The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of…"

"The suburban housewife — she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all …"

"Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgastic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming…"

"American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if … t…"

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

"Men will not be free to be all they can be as long as they must live up to an image of masculinity that disallows all…"