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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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“Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?”

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Book:Fountain of Age

Source: Fountain of Age

“We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn't mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes.”

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“Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.”

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“There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother's health, well-being and autonomy and control of her own destiny is maximized by work outside the home.”

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Author:Betty Friedan

“This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is somehow responsible for increasing juvenile delinquency or the increase in divorce rate, is just so much bullshit.”

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“It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.”

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Book:The Feminine Mystique

Source: The Feminine Mystique

“We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'”

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Book:The Feminine Mystique

Source: The Feminine Mystique

“If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.”

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Book:Fountain of Age

Source: Fountain of Age

About the Author

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

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