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Betty friedan the feminine mystique 19636/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Men will not be free to be all they can be as long as they must live up to an image of masculinity that disallows all the tenderness and sensitivity in a man, all that might be considered feminine.Speech at the First National Conference for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, 1969. Then, and only then, will they be able to embrace motherhood without conflict, when they will be able to define themselves not just the somebody's mother, not just as servants of children, not just is breeding receptacles, but as people for whom motherhood is a freely chosen part of life, freely celebrated while it lasts, but for whom creativity has many more dimensions, as it has for men. I am saying that motherhood will only be a joyous and responsible human act when women are free to make, with full conscious choice and full human responsibility, the decisions to become mothers. Am I saying that women must be liberated from motherhood? No.1.3 It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women's Movement (1976 ). ![]()
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