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Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique Quotes: It is wrong to keep spelling out unnecessary choices that make women unconsciously resist either commitment or motherhood--and that hold back recognition of the needed social changes.
         

It is wrong to keep spelling out unnecessary choices that make women unconsciously resist either commitment or motherhood--and that hold back recognition of the needed social changes.


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It is wrong to keep spelling out unnecessary choices that make women unconsciously resist either commitment or motherhood--and that hold back recognition of the needed social changes.
         



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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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