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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.
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.
Approximate author period: c. 1963 AD · modern
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- Betty Friedan
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- Approximate author period: c. 1963 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Betty Friedan: life dates 1921 to 2006. Wikidata Q234604, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234604 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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