encouragement from the woman she idolizes, Mrs. Flowers. Mrs.

Flowers provides Marguerite with attention and with feelings that

are most essential for the development of a child - self-respect,

confidence, and the feeling of being liked. A little girl grows

up to become a great writer, and remembers Sister Flowers with

great admiration as the woman who changed her life.

Similarly, in my life there's someone who helped me become a

better human being. Her name is Betty Friedan and she's the

person responsible for the Modern Women's Rights Movement.

As a married woman with 3 children, Betty Friedan devoted

all her time to being a wife and a mother. Her life as a

homemaker led her to develop a theory on women. It concerned the

dangers of the idea that women should be completely satisfied

with their roles as wives and mothers and that somehow it was

abnormal to want a career or an identity separate from the

family. But women did want more out of life. It was not that they

wished to give up their families, they simply wanted to use their

well-developed minds for more than just deciding what to cook for

dinner, or which detergent is better.

only "sick" women could possibly feel dissatisfied with being

discrimination on the basis of race or sex. She made it NOW's

women's magazines, but it was rejected with the response that

purpose became the cornerstone of the National Organization for

could be applied quickly and relatively easily. She advocated

Mystique. Friedan was immediately cast as the leader of it.

took 5 years to complete and was called The Feminine Mystique.

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