“… 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, book The Feminine Mystique

Source: The Feminine Mystique

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