Mrs. America
Wednesdays on FX (Hulu Exclusive)Mrs. America Season 1 Episode 4: "Betty" Quotes
Betty: The ERA is in danger, and everyone is too busy fawning over Gloria to listen to me, it's absurd! Are they so blinded by all the hair?
Natalie: So make them listen. You're Betty Friedan, for Christ's sake.
We're a political movement, not a sorority.
Gloria
Natalie: Betty knows what she's doing.
Gloria: It's just we all agreed on a—
Natalie: Who agreed? You and Bella?
Gloria: We try and work with her but she can be… she has a difficult personality. Maybe you don't see that side of her because you're friends—
Natalie: Oh no, no, Betty is impossible. But without her, there's no NOW, no Women's Political Caucus, no NARAL. We get to do what we do because she risked everything. So before you tell her what she can and cannot do, consider just saying thank you.
There will be no Lavender Menace bullshit here. Lesbians are welcome. Horizontal hostility is not.
Flo
And I do believe that if we want the same rights as men, we have to be able to accept the same responsibilities!
You keep insisting that a woman's place is in the home. But you waltz in around the country decrying us for trying to open career opportunities to women, and this is what I can't stand -- the hypocrisy!
You were right. We don't get to decide how the battle lines are drawn, or how the male press portrays us. I have been thinking about the first time I read The Feminine Mystique. Why should women accept this picture of a half-life, instead of sharing the whole of human destiny? I don't know if I ever told you… your book changed my life. Thank you.
Gloria
