“The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. There is no other way.”

— Betty Friedan, book The Feminine Mystique

Interviews with Betty Friedan, Janann Sherman, ed. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2002, ISBN 1578064805, p. x.
Source: The Feminine Mystique

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