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“When women take their education and their abilities seriously and put them to use, ultimately they have to compete with men. 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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Betty Friedan buch The Feminine Mystique

Quelle: The Feminine Mystique (1963), Ch. 14 "A New Life Plan for Women".

“American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if … the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one’s full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.”

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Betty Friedan buch The Feminine Mystique

Ch 13 "The Forfeited Self".
The Feminine Mystique (1963)

“Playboy: What was it?”

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Betty Friedan

The Playboy Interview (1992)