"Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?"

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Source : The Feminine Mystique ch. 1 (1963)

Betty Friedan

#Husband Quotes #Children Quotes #Struggle Quotes

“The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.”

Source : "The City in History". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter 18, 1961.
“I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If it's half as good as the half we've known, here's Hail! to the rest of the road.”
“After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.”
“One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.”
“Our world is guided by two principles and sources: God and the devil. All that is better in the world of men has its source in God, and all that is bad has the devil as its principle and source. In the final account, all good comes from God, and all evil from the devil.”
“Whoever you are is to your advantage”
“I want to have a family and teach them the way to live their lives, pretty much the way I was raised, with a lot of love and the Lord. I want them to stay off the streets, and to have goals and dreams.”

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