A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
Source: The Feminine Mystique, ch. 14, 1963.
-- Betty Friedan, (Feb 4 1921-2006), US feminist, activist, writer; She founded NOW, 1960; president until 1970; wrote The Feminine Mystique, 1963.