Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.

—Betty Friedan

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Betty Friedan (; February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006) was an American feminist writer and activist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century. In...

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When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

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Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate woman inside it.

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

—Aimee Mullins

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.

Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds—sexandviolence—until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.

The Americans, who are the most efficient people on earth,… have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on a conversation without giving a moment's reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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