“...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps...they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.”

Betty Friedan

Betty Friedan - “...women who 'adjust' as housewives...” 1

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