"We could not imagine ourselves beyond the age of 21," Betty Friedan wrote in 1963, in a message that shocked -- and liberated -- thousands of American women. "We had no image of our own future." The argument, of course, was that women were stuck: stuck in the kitchen, the home, changing diapers and tending to dinner and baking pies and cleaning up suburban houses and popping tranquilizers as they squashed their ambitions. Friedan put ...