In Maya Angelou's "Sister Flowers" a little girl finds
             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.
             After finding out(by mailing out questioners) that she
             wasn't the only one being unhappy with the role of women in
             society, Friedan wrote an article and sent it to the leading
             women's magazines, but it was rejected with the response that
             only "sick" women could possibly feel dissatisfied with being
             full-time mothers and wives(Friedan, It Changed My Life). But
             Friedan knew otherwise and turned her article into a book, which
             took 5 years to complete and was called The Feminine Mystique.
             Thought she had not planned to start a revolution, Friedan
             began the modern women's liberation movement- the movement to
             gain equal rights for women- with the writing of The Feminine
             Mystique. Friedan was immed...