"Men weren’t really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate whe...
No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
~ Betty Friedan ~
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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
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