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...made me a feminist before my time...any woman who chose a profession became a feminist before Betty Friedan ever thought about the subject," she concludes...
From Betty Friedan...
Your article "The Friedan Mystique," reporting on Betty Friedan's new memoir Life So Far [BOOKS, May 1], said her "public life took a private toll." What was omitted in your article and her book was the private toll her life took on the people around her. No one can deny that nearly single-handedly Betty Friedan changed the world. That's history. But her rewriting of her personal relationships with her family cannot go unchallenged. She claims in her book to have been abused by me, a charge that your article reported, and I refuted. She was never abused...
...Friedan tells us more than we need to know about her sex life. In her marriage, she writes, "we had pet names for his c___ and my diaphragm ...when he put his tongue hard down my throat, I loved the whole melting feeling, not just the clitoral orgasm." After her divorce, she had numerous affairs, and she names names. (Asked about her indiscretion, she replies simply, "They're dead.") She tells of getting a telephone call from Steinem while in bed with a married father of five, and of fooling around with another old flame who fell...
...Friedan, 79, who lives in Washington, says she's astounded that the transformations in women's lives have come "so rapidly and completely and that young women take it for granted." She's still working to improve those lives, with a $1 million grant from the Ford Foundation for a research project on the future of men and women in the workplace. "The next phase has to put quality of life before dollars and cents," she says. "I'd call it the 'Get a Life' movement...