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Geller came to retail cosmetics thirty years ago from a job teaching English, during which he’s managed to make up feminist foremother Betty Friedan twice, while she was on a Radcliffe fellowship...
...Schlesinger Library boasts a large collection of pins, pennants and posters from various women’s rights movements. And the papers of many prominent feminist thinkers, including Betty Friedan and Andrea Dworkin, can also be found in the library’s archival collections...
Mertz credits feminist Betty Friedan with turning her life around. "It wasn't until The Feminine Mystique," she says, "that I began to get those 'clicks' that she talks about, and they came like a machine gun." By the time the epiphanies stopped, Mertz's marriage was over, as well as her days as a housewife. "I'm not knocking homemaking," she is quick to say. "I would have hated to miss my children's first words and first steps. I just wish there had been more options for us women...
...machine gun as well. Her talent surfaced early, while she was growing up in Oak Park, Ill. Called on to write a sonnet in high school, she produced something so professional that her teacher suspected her of plagiarism. When she took up writing again, after being inspired by Friedan's polemic, she wrote three books for which she couldn't find a publisher. With the fourth she was successful, and has remained so ever since. She turns out about one mystery a year, and tries to go to Egypt just as often. "I'm still fascinated by the romanticism...
...first day on the job running the disintegrating Soviet Union--and how he broke the news to his wife Raisa the night before he accepted the post. Robert McNamara takes us inside the White House on the pivotal day of the Cuban missile crisis, while Betty Friedan describes the scene at an official Washington lunch where she and some colleagues exchanged table napkins on which they wrote the charter for the National Organization for Women. Carrie Fisher tells about the day when Star Wars premiered and her identity as Princess Leia Organa became larger than life. Senate majority leader Bill...