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«The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question: ''Is this all?''»
Author: Betty Friedan
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«I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
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«Now, God be thanked who has matched us with His hour, / And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping.»
«Well-married, a man is winged - ill matched, he is shackled»
«The ''sensitiveness'' claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.»
Author: Marcel Proust
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«Since you are so well matched, and so much alike - a very bad wife, and a very bad husband - I wonder that you do not agree»
«Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity»
«Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.»
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