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From 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…
- I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I did it. And…
- Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were…
- No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
- 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…
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