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Inaugural Ballers: The True Story of the First US Women's Olympic Basketball Team

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“It meant that I and every other woman I knew had been living a lie, and all the doctors who treated us and the experts who studied us were perpetuating that lie, and our homes and schools and churches and politics and professions were built around that lie," she (Betty Friedan) wrote. "If women were really people -- no more, no less -- then all the things that kept them from being full people in our society would have to be changed. And women, once they broke through the feminine mystique and took themselves seriously as people, would see their place on a false pedestal, even their glorification as sexual objects, for the putdown it was.”

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