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American Women Quotes by Betty Friedan
- 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…
- The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the…
- The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at the dead feminists.…
- When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it…
- The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous. But…
- The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
- 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…
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- The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is… — Betty Friedan
- The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women… — Betty Friedan
- If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of… — Marya Mannes
- We cannot educate white women and take them by the hand. Most of us are willing to help but we can't do… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa
- African-American women who develop breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than White women of the same age. Survival… — Frank C. Garland
- American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at… — Betty Friedan
- An estimated 2 million American women will be diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer this decade and screening could prevent up to… — Matthew Lesko
- The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher,… — Pat Buchanan
- All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that… — Helena Rubinstein
- Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American… — Barbara Mikulski
- In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of… — Shirin Ebadi