Feminist Author Betty Friedan Dies at 85

[CatWoman]

they go in pairs, don't they?

WASHINGTON - Betty Friedan, whose manifesto "The Feminine Mystique" became a best seller in the 1960s and laid the groundwork for the modern feminist movement, died Saturday, her birthday. She was 85.


Friedan died at her home of congestive heart failure, according to a cousin, Emily Bazelon.

Friedan's assertion in her 1963 best seller that having a husband and babies was not everything and that women should aspire to separate identities as individuals, was highly unusual, if not revolutionary, just after the baby and suburban booms of the Eisenhower era.

The feminine mystique, she said, was a phony bill of goods society sold to women that left them unfulfilled, suffering from "the problem that has no name" and seeking a solution in tranquilizers and psychoanalysis.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060204/ap_on_re_us/obit_friedan

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. May she rest in peace while her legacy lives on.

[JI7]

2. we seen to be losing a lot of great women

especially at a time when we are at risk of losing the rights they and others spend their lives fighting for.

[WillyT]

3. Or Threes Maybe ??? - King, Lewis, And Friedan...

So sad...

[CatWoman]

4. you're right, Willy

it is 3's.

[sandnsea]

5. Set us loose to live our dreams

I hope we don't let her down. Thank you Betty, God Speed.

[Faygo Kid]

6. Her 85th birthday today.

Ironic, at least. A great person.

[Flubadubya]

7. Whoah... she looks like Helen Thomas...

Please, spare Helen! O8)

[theHandpuppet]

8. RIP, Ms Friedan

Young women and men today have no idea the debt of gratitude owed to your struggle.

[newyawker99]

9. Rest in peace Ms. Friedan.

[CatWoman]

10. kick

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