Well, she’s gone. I never read “The Feminine Mystique” for some reason; maybe it was considered “old hat” or something when I was taking Women’s Studies classes.

I had a personal encounter with her several years after college: I was drunk, silly, and sitting next to her in First Class on a flight home from a SABRE training class in Dallas. Ms. Friedan asked the flight attendant to move me far away from her, and be quiet.

Heh. Well, I guess that was the real reason I never read her book, even though I respected her as a pioneer. But I don’t know why it wasn’t a required text in the classes I took.

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