The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained. - Betty Friedan

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

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question — “Is this all?”