I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my….

In almost every professional field, in business and in the arts and sciences, women are still treated as second-class citizens. It would be a great s….

The media and even, to some degree, leaders of women's organizations don't understand that the women's movement is an absolute part of society now. I….

Some people think I'm saying, 'Women of the world unite -- you have nothing to lose but your men. It's not true. You have nothing to lose but your va….

The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at the dead feminis….

I would have much rather been in the jalopy with the kids, going to Hunt's for hamburgers. But, when I entered high school, all my friends got into s….

It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific labo….

When I was in high school, even in college, I didn't have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman..

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate wh….

Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to pretend it's youth, y….

It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself..

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman..

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained..

I didn't want to be in a situation where I was broader than the boys, which I was, in the academic world..

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves..

There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother's health, well-being and autonomy and control of her own destiny is ma….

Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in f….

Women today have choices and demand choices, choices to have kids or not and the reproductive technology thereto. And it is a fact [that] most women ….

A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination..

What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expectancy was forty-six;….