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Betty Friedan was an American writer renowned for her groundbreaking work, 'The Feminine Mystique,' which had a profound impact on the women's liberation movement of the 20th century. Her writing exposed the dilemmas faced by women in society, the family, and the workplace, sparking a reevaluation of their status and rights.

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“[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.”

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“All year there have been these cover stories that the women's movement is dead and about the death of feminism and the post-feminist generation of young women who don't identify with feminism - and then we have the biggest march ever of women in Washington. More people than had ever marched for anything - not only more women, but more people.”

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“By now, abortion should be obsolete. And I - and probably a lot of other feminists - wish it were obsolete, because abortion, in itself, is not a value - it is simply the right to chose, which is an essential value.”

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“No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.”

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“The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.”

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Book:The Feminine Mystique

Source: The Feminine Mystique

“The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.”

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Book:Life So Far: A Memoir

Source: Life So Far: A Memoir

“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.”

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Book:the year's most controversial bestseller the feminine mystique

Source: the year's most controversial bestseller the feminine mystique

“The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.”

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Book:The Feminine Mystique

Source: The Feminine Mystique

About the Author

Born: February 4, 1921
Died: February 4, 2006
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 124

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