她是一个嫁给了精英阶层显赫地位的男人的女性，居住在纽约；当她假日去拜访她的常春藤和Smith, Wellesley女校的同样名门女生时，她发现，她们绝大多数都过得很不开心、. 为什么呢，极高的社会地位，自身诱人的学识、修养，WHY WE ARE NOT HAPPY? 这是因为the problem of being "no- name"。 那么，这本书里 她对于此大家闺秀有苦难言的社会现象进行了从自身角度的看问题是，对问题的介绍，和解决方案。及描述了精英阶层卓越女性对生活、家庭、相夫教子之间的付出和权衡。

In Life So Far, Friedan takes us on an intimate journey throughout her own life, from her lonely childhood to the founding of Now, and her brilliant, contentious, and brave leadership of the movement. Friedan chronicles the secret underground of women in Washington in the early sixties who drafted her to spearhead an "NAACP" for women, and the daring of many who spoke out against discrimination for the first time. She recounts the political infighting and dirty tricks within the movement, and the forces that tried to destroy it, and how hard she fought to keep the movement practical and free of extremism, including "man hating". Friedan is frank about her twenty-two-year marriage to an advertising entrepreneur, which deteriorated into physical abuse. Forthright, full of stories and larger-than-life characters, it is the scope of Friedan's vision and achievements that make her memoir so important and compelling. In Life So Far, an account only she could have written, Friedan spares neither herself nor anyone else.