White Teeth by Zadie Smith: “she reads, in a few short months, Greer's Female Eunuch, Jong's Fear of Flying, and The Second Sex, all in a clandestine attempt to rid Clara of her 'false consciousness.'”
How to Be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis: “I first read The Female Eunuch in the school library, because its cover, with the limp, hollow skin of a female torso hanging off a clothes rail, was too racy for home.”