Betty Friedan - The Second Stage (1981)

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This uneasy sense of battles won, only to be fought over again, of battles that should have been won, according to all the rules, and yet are not, of battles that suddenly one does not really want to win, and the weariness of battle altogether—how many women feel it?

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The women's movement has for years been the scapegoat for the rage of threatened, insecure housewives who can no longer count on husbands for lifelong support.

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Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone.... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: all psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.

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Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.

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Life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. That is the reason for the religious revival and the new resonance of 'family'.

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