"A rallying cry exhorting women to make change happen for themselves"GuardianWhen Betty Friedan produced The Feminine Mystique in 1963, she could not have realized how it would shake up society. It gives a brutally honest insight into the malaise of ordinary women who followed strict social convention by loyally conforming to the pretty images of magazines, and found themselves forced to seek meaning in their lives through a family and a home, only to ask, "Is this all?'. Friedan's controversial book about these women - and every woman -would ultimately set Second Wave feminism in motion and begin the battle for equality."One of the most influential non-fiction books of the twentieth century" The New York Times"Friedan succeeded where no other feminist writer had. She touched the lives of ordinary readers" New Yorker