Betty Friedan, whose manifesto The Feminine Mystique became a best seller in the 1960s and laid the groundwork for the modern feminist movement, died Saturday, her birthday. She was 85.
Friedan died at her home of congestive heart failure, according to a cousin, Emily Bazelon.
Her funeral will be Monday or Tuesday in New York, where she lived part of the time, Bazelon said.
Friedan's assertion in her 1963 best seller that having a husband and babies was not everything...
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