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...other panelist complained that women didn't aspire to the supreme Court bench, and Mrs. Friedan straightened. Tapping the table with a forefinger bearing an enormous ring and straining to make us understand, she said, "Aspire. Exactly. Adults ask little boys what they want to be when they grow up. They ask little girls where they got that pretty dress...
...Friedan pursues the "feminine mystique" with relentless single-mindedness. She asked to be introduced to women law students before Friday night's Law School Forum, not to find out what they were thinking, but because she needed more material on young women's professional goals for her new book. while we walked to Wyeth Hall to have tea with the women, I mentioned a Harvard professor's book about seventeenth century merchants. Mrs. Friedan immediately interrupted, "Doesn't his wife collaborate on some of his stuff? She does? What her name?" Pulling out a note book, she asked...
...enormously energetic women, Mrs. Friedan speaks in long, run-on sentences and Burins arguments in rushes of anecdotes and shibboleths. "In my generation," she began a WHRB interview, "the consciousness of what a woman's life can be came too late--and too painfully--to do anything at all." She admits she continues to direct her books at that generation, writing passionate, if somewhat untenable, perfaces about her consoeurs who "lie beside their husbands at night...afraid to ask even of themselves the silent question--'Is this all?'" She then rushes into effusions about "marvelously talented college girls who will...
...Friedan bridles at the suggestion that she is a feminist; she switches her head and pounds her small fist on the table at the idea. "We haven't passed into a new kind of feminism," she corrected the WHRB interviewer impatiently. "Call it peopleism." She is a turnerr of pharases, a master at epigrams, but not a consistent thinker. The chapters of her book have catchy titles: "The Sexual Solipsism of Sigmund Freud," "The Functional Freeze, the Feminine Portest, and Margaret Mead," "The Sexual Sell," and "Housewifery Expands to Fill the Time Available...
...aphorisms. She sees a "new movement in women's rights tied tot he struggle for Negro rights, a kind of human revolution." The Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention of 1848, she reminds people, brought together women who were refused seats at an anti-salvery convention in London. Mrs. Friedan foresees "institutional improvements" that will "help women avoid martyr-like choices;" business firms, she insists, will adopt flexible hiring practices and working schedules so women can "retire for a few months" to have children, colleges will admit part-time graduate students, the federal government will finance reliable day-care nurseries...