US "feminist, activist, writer".
"She founded "NOW," 1960; president until 1970; wrote "The Feminine Mystique," 1963."
It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
"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."
Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.