Playboy Interview: Betty Friedan

September, 1992

Wherever Betty Friedan goes, she gets the kind of attention normally resented for movie stars. But the people who approach her are not autograph seekers. They represent a remarkable array of women of every race, age and background. They usually apologize for bothering her and explain that they just want to tell her one thing: "You changed my life."Few people have affected as many lives--male or female--as Friedan, the mother of the modern-day women's movement. In 1963 she finished &quo...