"In almost every professional field, in business and in the arts and sciences, women are still treated as second-class citizens. It would be a great … - Betty Friedan

A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination.

"Do you object to the celebration of sexuality in our pictorials?

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

It is both an irony and an indictment of the feminine mystique that it often forced the unhappy ones, the ugly ducklings, to find themselves, while girls who fitted the image became adjusted 'happy' housewives and have never found out who they are.