Oooh, The Second Sex is amazing. I read that and Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women whenever I'm in a feminist mood.

The Feminine Mystique is overrated, though.

I'm taking a class on Language and Gender and I really hope we read Simone de Beuvoir. She's seriously one of those authors that you read and you just know they were way above you intellectually? Like Harper Lee or Carl Sagan or something. Just awesome. I had to stop and cogitate about what she said just to properly soak it in.

I KNOW! I wish I looked as good as her, dammit.