. >> host: would you compare in any way "fear of flying" to betty friedan's "feminine mystique"? >> guest: not really because betty's work is a nonfiction work, and mine is a work of fiction. but, again, i think there is one similarity in that we're both writing about restlessness, female restlessness and a feeling that we have not yet achieved equality. we still want it, but our revolution is not there yet. >> host: we recently interviewed on booktv deborah spar who's president of barnard college who's just written this book "wonder women: sex, power and the quest for perfection." >> guest: and she writes about "fear of flying" in it. >> host: fear of flying struck a powerful chord in 1973, staying on the bestseller lists throughout '74, '75. no women had written quite so vividly and baldly about things, about sex, etc. but that it really struck a chord, is what she said. and this is the president of barnard college -- >> guest: my college where i've established the erica jong writing prize, writing knellship which i support. -- fellowship which i support. and i began this progra

. >> host: would you compare in any way "fear of flying" to betty friedan's feminine mystique? > guest: not really because betty's book is nonfiction work and mine is a work of fiction. but again i think there is one similarity and that we are both writing about restlessness, female restlessness and a feeling that we have not yet achieved equality. we still want it but our revolution is not there yet. >> host: we recently interviewed on booktv the president of barnard college. she had just written this book wonder women, sex power and the quest for perfection. "fear of flying" struck a powerful court in 1973. part of its appeal is probably just the sex. before flying no woman had written quite so vividly and so old glee about things, about sex etc. but then it really struck a chord is what she says. this is the president of barnard college. >> guest: my college where i have established the erica jong writing fellowship which i support and i began this program at barnard college for young women writers and every year i donate to it to give fellowships to women who want to be writ

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. >> host: how important was betty friedan's book "the feminine mystique"? guest: that cannot be respond. i have zero knowledge of it growing up. >> host: did your mother read it? >> guest: my mother read it but i don't think it affected her life in a huge way because she was in retrospect already quite liberated. she was a schoolteacher and was very vivacious. i didn't read it in college and i really have only read it much later in life. and was in fact quite shocked to see first of all it's a brilliant book but also how relevant it is in the sites that although women have won legal rights and workplace rights in great numbers since 1960 3a lot of the problems she points who are still problems we are dealing with today. >> host: debora l. spar you started by saying that ever since he you took the job as president of our nard college you have become a die-hard feminist. why? >> guest: i think to be a little clearer i started becoming a feminist although although i wouldn't have used that word earlier in my life when i was at harvard business school and i thi