Example sentences for: friedan

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  • Back in the 1950s, twin colossi sat astride the Hudson, figuratively glowering at each other: Betty Friedan in Grandview on the West Bank, writing The Feminine Mystique , and John Cheever in Scarborough on the East Bank, writing the Wapshot books and the short stories.

  • "Hold nude poetry readings by Germaine Greer, Betty Friedan, and Bill Baird (the abortion-rights advocate, not the famed puppeteer--who, by the way, has currently found work moving Annette Funicello's mouth)."

  • Wielding her Windex bottle like a weapon, smashing Kleenexes into the 9-year-old's mouth to retrieve illicit pieces of chewing gum, Annie is a counterfactual from hell--what American housewives would probably be like if Betty Friedan had never published The Feminine Mystique . Annie's mothering is loving but grim, and she's prone to irrational outbursts the rest of the family has to tiptoe around.

  • The Nation's Newspaper also carries this assessment by Betty Friedan of who's behind the push to impeachment: "A bunch of dirty old white men."

  • There were the liberal kind, such as Betty Friedan, who believed in the Equal Rights Amendment, day care, birth control, and abortion.


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