Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women's intelligence will contribute when it can be nouri… - Betty Friedan

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

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

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, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!

It is both an irony and an indictment of the feminine mystique that it often forced the unhappy ones, the ugly ducklings, to find themselves, while girls who fitted the image became adjusted 'happy' housewives and have never found out who they are.

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. There is no other way.