她是一個嫁給瞭精英階層顯赫地位的男人的女性，居住在紐約；當她假日去拜訪她的常春藤和Smith, Wellesley女校的同樣名門女生時，她發現，她們絕大多數都過得很不開心、. 為什麼呢，極高的社會地位，自身誘人的學識、修養，WHY WE ARE NOT HAPPY? 這是因為the problem of being "no- name"。 那麼，這本書裏 她對於此大傢閨秀有苦難言的社會現象進行瞭從自身角度的看問題是，對問題的介紹，和解決方案。及描述瞭精英階層卓越女性對生活、傢庭、相夫教子之間的付齣和權衡。

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.