2.
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
Betty Friedan
3.
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
Betty Friedan
4.
The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
Betty Friedan
6.
I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.
Charles Dickens
7.
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
W. Somerset Maugham
8.
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
Betty Friedan
9.
She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
10.
His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.
Margaret Mitchell
12.
Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to pretend it's youth, you are going to miss it. You are going to miss the surprises, the possibilities, and the evolution that we are just beginning to know about because there are no role models, no guideposts, and no signs.
Betty Friedan
13.
They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.
Elizabeth Hardwick
14.
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
Mason Cooley