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“A woman today who has no goal, no purpose, no ambition patterning her days into the future, making her stretch and grow beyond that small score of years in which her body can fill its biological function, is committing a kind of suicide.”
― The Feminine Mystique
― The Feminine Mystique
“Women who were lesbians, of all races and classes, were at the forefront of the radicalization of contemporary female resistance to patriarchy in part because this group had their sexual preference already placed themselves outside the domain of heterosexist privilege and protection, both in the home and in the workplace. No matter their class, they were social outcasts.”
― Where We Stand: Class Matters
― Where We Stand: Class Matters
“Really good clothes never go out of fashion.”
― Shocking Life
― Shocking Life
“From the onset, reformist white women with class privilege were well aware that the power and freedom they wanted was the freedom they perceived men of their class enjoying.”
― Where We Stand: Class Matters
― Where We Stand: Class Matters
“Woman's sexual problems are, in this sense, by-products of the suppression of her basic need to grow and fulfill her potentialities as a human being, potentialities which the mystique of feminine fulfillment ignores.”
― The Feminine Mystique
― The Feminine Mystique
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