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.”
On Women by Susan Sontag: “...women thumbing through copies of The Second Sex, The Feminine Mystique, The Dialectic of Sex, and Sexual Politics with great intent.”
Coventry by Rachel Cusk: “Two books – Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own – bring these thoughts to mind”