"By the time I graduated from college, in 1983, the polemical message of [Friedan's] “The Feminine Mystique” had been firmly established as the new orthodoxy. Almost without exception, my female classmates either went off to graduate school or found themselves jobs. If any of us harbored a desire to stay home in order to raise babies, we certainly didn't admit it. (Such a confession would have been received far less warmly than the announcement of, say, an intention to go into pornography.)" Elizabeth Kolbert, writing in The New Yorker
