![]() Anna Quindlen is an award-winning columnist and novelist. ![]() ![]() For it is not the strength of the mothers that is at fault but their weakness, their passive childlike dependency and immaturity that is mistaken for "femininity." Our society forces boys, insofar as it can, to grow up, to endure the pains of growth, to educate themselves to work, to move on. Betty Friedan (19212006), a transformational leader of the women’s movement, founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) and authored many works, including The Second Stage, The Fountain of Age, and Life So Far. It is society's job, and finally that of each woman alone. If the mother is at fault, why isn't it time to break the pattern by urging all these Sleeping Beauties to grow up and live their own lives? There never will be enough Prince Charmings or enough therapists to break that pattern now. Best known for starting the 'Second Wave' of feminism through the writing of her book 'The Feminine Mystique' - an account of housewives' lives in which they subordinated their own aspirations to the needs of men bestseller was an inspiration for many women to join the women's rights movement. ![]() “We have gone on too long blaming or pitying the mothers who devour their children, who sow the seeds of progressive dehumanization, because they have never grown to full humanity themselves. ![]()
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