The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at the dead feminis… - Betty Friedan

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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. It is the joke that Freudian thought played on living women, twisting the memory of the feminists into the man-eating phantom of the feminine mystique, shriveling the very wish to be more than just a wife and mother.