Friedan

[fri-dan]

noun

Betty (Naomi Gold·stein) [gohld-steen] , 1921–2006, U.S. women's-rights leader and writer.

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Friedan (ˈfriːdən)

—n
	Betty. 1921--2006, US feminist, founder and first president (1966--70) of the National Organization for Women. Her books include The Feminine Mystique (1963), The Second Stage (1982), and The Fountain of Life (1993)

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"Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework—an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self- sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life."

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