The unpleasant image of the feminists today resembles less … - Betty Friedan

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The unpleasant image of the feminists today resembles less the feminists themselves than the image fostered by the interests who so bitterly opposed the vote for women...

Betty Friedan

The Feminine Mystique · September 17, 2001 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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About Betty Friedan

Betty Friedan (4 February 1921 – 4 February 2006) was an American "second-wave" feminist best known for The Feminine Mystique, a critique of women's role as stay-at-home mothers.

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Alternative Names: Betty Naomi Goldstein • Bettye Naomi Goldstein • Betty Naomi Friedan

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework — an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self- sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Rights” have a dull sound to people who have grown up after they have been won.

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

The unpleasant image of the feminists today resembles less the feminists themselves than the image fostered by the interests who so bitterly opposed … - Betty Friedan

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