The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. There is no other way.
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- Betty Friedan
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- Interviews with Betty Friedan, Janann Sherman, ed. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2002, , p. x.
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