"Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life."

-- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

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“Mrs. Charlotte Phelan's Guide to Husband-Hunting, Rule Number One: a pretty, petite girl should accentuate with makeup and good posture. A tall plain one, with a trust fund.”
“The value of a social network is defined not only by who's on it, but by who's excluded,”
“Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire.”

Source : Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”
“Think ahead. Golf is a next-shot game.”
“By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention colour is colour. But in reality there are atoms and the void. That is, the objects of sense are supposed to be real and it is customary to regard them as such, but in truth they are not. Only the atoms and the void are real.”
“The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.”
“I want him to know I love him. I want him to feel that we both tried, but this was way too big for us: we aren't going to survive this. Even if I hadn't done what I did with Mal, almost all the strings of our marriage have been severed; waiting together to say goodbye is the last one. Once it has been cut, only love will remain. And it takes more than love--no matter how fervent, deep and passionate--to keep two people together.”
“I think the knowledge about how legislation really affects small businesses is extremely valuable. If you haven't run a small business, then you don't have this kind of knowledge about how a regulation passed or taxes increased affects your bottom line. If you recognize that every new regulation takes that much more time to comply with, requires that many more employees, then it really gives you that foundational basis to make those decisions.”

Source : "Rep. Kristi Noem: Head of the Class". Interview with Emily Miller, humanevents.com. February 14, 2011.

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