Betty Friedan
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Friedan was a journalist whose 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking second-wave feminism in the United States.
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8 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 4 Feb 1921, Peoria, Illinois, as Bettye Naomi Goldstein (opens wiqqi.app)
- Died: 4 Feb 2006, her 85th birthday, at her home in Washington, D.C., of congestive heart failure (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: Smith College, psychology, 1942 (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa); graduate fellowship in psychology at UC Berkeley, 1943 (opens wiqqi.app)
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Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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6 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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No one knows what women can be until they are free to become themselves (opens korrents.com)
“Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?”
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A woman, like a man, finds herself only through creative work of her own (opens korrents.com)
“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.”
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Living through someone else is easier than becoming complete yourself (opens korrents.com)
“It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.”
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No one knows what women can be until they are free to become themselves (opens korrents.com)