
ABOUT
Author of the groundbreaking 1963 work, The Feminine Mystique, and a leading figure in 20th-century American feminism's second wave. She established the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966 and served as the group's first president.She was a strong supporter of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.She and Rebecca West were both important feminist authors.
BEFORE FAMEShe studied psychology at Smith College and edited the campus newspaper. She began graduate study at the University of California-Berkeley, but dropped out of school to work as a left-wing journalist.
PERSONAL LIFEShe married Carl Friedan in 1947; together, the couple had three children: Emily, Daniel, and Jonathan.
Famous QuotesMan is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.
Novelist Betty Friedan were born on Friday, birthstone is Amethyst, the seaon was Winter in the Chinese year of Rooster, it is 31 days until Betty Friedan next birthday.