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Feminine Mystique

Reminds me of what Malcolm X was saying too

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"There are so many of us now they don't dare do it openly the way they used to, so you think there's something wrong with you. It's worse, now that it's so subtle." (xii)

Damn, I feel like this theme hits nowadays too

It was popular in recent years to laugh at feminism as of history's dirty jokes: to pity, sniggering, those old-fashioned feminists who fought for women's rights to higher education, careers, the vote.

Oh my, there is something so funny to me about this being the unsolvable question for Sigmund Freud

"The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is, what does a woman want?"

The sex-directed educator cites approvingly Cardinal Tisserant's saying, "Women should be educated so that they can argue with their husbands."

Funny, I didn’t know those who served in WWII were called pussies too. I guess there’s always a problem with the new generation.

World War II revealed that millions of American men were psychologically incapable of facing the shock of war, of facing life away from their "moms."

Facts are swallowed by a mystique in much the same way, I guess, as the strange phenomenon by which hamburger eaten by a dog becomes dog, and hamburger eaten by a human becomes human.

"In a free enterprise economy," he went on, "we have to develop the need for new products. And to do that we have to liberate women to desire these new products.”

I keep getting so involved in committees I don't care about. It's the thing to do to get in with the crowd here. But it doesn't make me feel quiet inside, the way I feel when I feel when I paint.

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