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...polarizing figure, Friedan ultimately drew criticism from her feminist colleagues for her conservative stance on issues like homosexuality. She insisted that the feminist movement remain in the American mainstream, and condemned those who characterized men as enemies and rejected family life...
...spring of 1982, Friedan lived in Mather House and was a Fellow at the Institute of Politics (IOP), according to articles in The Crimson. She noted at the time that her acceptance of the title was not without its ironies...
...can’t rest on the assumption that equality is here to stay,” Friedan said at the IOP in 1980. “I don’t want to see a generation of lonely, tired, bitter women in the next few years in backlash against what I have worked so hard for,” she added...
...Friedan graduated summa cum laude from Smith College in 1942, where she also served as an editor of the campus newspaper. She spent a year as a graduate student in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley and later left to become a journalist...
...marriage to Carl Friedan ended in 1969. She is survived by her three children...