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It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete 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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