"The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity."

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Source : BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

Betty Friedan

#Feminist Quotes #Revolution Quotes #States Quotes

“I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.”
“Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.”
“I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood.”
“For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium.”
“It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny....”
“Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.”
“Family is the only anchor that will hold in a choppy sea.”
“How strange it was that a dream, once realized, could quickly turn mundane.”

Source : Maggie Shipstead (2014). “Astonish Me: A novel”, p.102, Vintage

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