Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different and the choice to be generative in other ways can at last be made and is being made by many women now without guilt.
Betty Friedan
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It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.
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It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
- Betty Friedan