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- Graduated summa cum laude from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. (1942)
- Founded the National Organization for Women (NOW).
- Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993.
- Died on the same day she celebrated her 85th birthday
- Her 1963 book "The Feminine Mystique" became the cornerstone of one of the 20th century's most profound movements unleashing the first full flowering of American feminism since the mid 1800's.
- Her emphatic belief that women should have equal rights but not at the expense of alienating men distinguished her from many feminist leaders who emerged later.
- Was a classmate of future First Lady Nancy Reagan (aka Nancy Davis) at Smith College.
- Grandmother of Rafael Friedan.
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