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Betty Naomi Friedan
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"When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman." -
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Betty Naomi Friedan
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Top 5 quotes from Betty Naomi Friedan
"If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based."
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"Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night-she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-"Is this all?"
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