“Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.”
Source: Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989), Ch. 6
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“A Dialogue with Simone de Beauvoir,” in Betty Friedan, It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women’s Movement, (New York: Random House, 1976), p. 397 https://books.google.com/books?id=iv4-Qy82BJ0C&pg=PA397&lpg=PA397.
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[Martha Mitchell, Saturday Evening Post, Fall 1971, 243, 2, 50-53]

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”

“We should protect her privacy and not reveal too much of that.”
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