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I watched them make a home and only sometimes thought of a fight between my husband and me that had seemed inconsequential in the moment and now, in comparison, changed. I would walk back to my own apartment, holding my gloved hands over my ears against the January wind, feeling the blood close to …

[...] Friedan says she used to be terrified of flying, but after The Feminine Mystique was published, she stopped being afraid. “Now I fly on jets across the ocean and on one-engine air taxis in the hills of West Virginia. I guess that, existentially, once you start really living your life, and doi…

But before she was a face of and a symbol for one kind of middle-class feminist reckoning, she was employed at the United Electrical Workers union, where she kept very, very busy. Coontz lists Friedan’s activities as including editing the community newsletter, assisting with the babysitting co-op, …

I once heard a the­ory about the first re­la­tion­ship that oc­curs af­ter a big re­la­tion­ship ends. It’s called the 90/10 rule. The the­ory goes: what­ever the cru­cial 10 per cent is that was miss­ing from your part­ner who was oth­er­wise to­tally right for you is the thing you look for in the…

The next day, as we stood in front of the Venus de Milo in the Lou­vre, I looked over his shoul­der and saw that he was googling him­self.

Specif­i­cally, he was googling ‘Did Ask or Task air in France?’

I know why he was do­ing it: it was be­cause he was feel­ing sore about the con­ver­sa­ti…