The glorification of the "'woman's role," then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance to treat women as complete human beings; for the less real function that role has, the more it is decorated with meaningless details to conceal its empt.
Betty Friedan in: David A. J. Richards Identity and the Case for Gay Rights: Race, Gender, Religion as Analogies, University of Chicago Press, 1999, p. 44