While I was expecting my third child, I left Greenwich Village and to the suburbans to raise my family. As I did that, I also started organizing community issues and freelanced journalism for women's and family magazines. I realized I wasn't using my education and surveyed my cohort at our college reunion to discover what the problem was. During this time was when The Feminine Mystique started to form.
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I continued interviewing until eventually The Feminine Mystique was published in 1963. It brought public awareness and many women started a women's movement which I became president of. The movement was called the National Organization for Women. This was only the start of me becoming active in women's rights as I later organized more awareness groups and strikes.
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As time went on and more people spoke up about the problems we had in the world, I started to get criticized by other women for focusing on primarily white, middle-class, educated, and heterosexual women. My beliefs alienated me from other women and they became the main people of the movement. I still remained an important advocate for women's rights throughout my life.