All of those books helped to shape our opinions and our activism. Let's not forget Simone de Bouvier's, The Second Sex. Women have always been hard on other woman. As a retired teacher, some of my worst Principals were women, petty women or Pollyannas who were afraid of intelligent, confident women, and still batting their eyelashes at men. And yet one of my best Principals was a woman, an ex military woman, who truly believed in equality of male and female students of all races and listened to all staff equally, taking into consideration opinions and suggestions. It is truly amazing to me that those books have not been read by young women who think they have it all. [They don't, but they need to find that out. They can't be told that fact.] My mother and many feisty Irish aunts were my role models, women who were ahead of their time--business women, academic women, who never took a back seat to any males in their company. Thank you to their father my Papa who believed in feminism.