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Betty Friedan [1921-2006] American

Rank: 101
Activist, Writer

Betty Friedan was an American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century.

Society, Women, Age, Home, Men, Movies, Strength

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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.	Women	101
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.		102
Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.	Men	103
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.	Age, Strength	104
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.	Women	105
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.	Home, Society	106
Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.		107
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.	Society	108
I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world.		109
We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!	Movies	110

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