Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities..

I understood somehow my mother's frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn't have a r….

There's no question that the black middle class has benefited greatly by the civil rights movement. But there is a large black underclass that does n….

We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn't mean they sto….

I think it's tremendously important that women continue to be full participants in the corporate environment, and that they continue to seek the same….

I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something….

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women's intelligence will contribute when it can be nouri….

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-fi….

You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much.

This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is somehow responsi….

Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children..

We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'.

To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong..

Feminism or the family? Carried to excess maybe. I have insisted that women cannot be defined solely in those terms. But for a great many women - not….

Getting older is an adventure, not a problem..

...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own deat….

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive..

If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. B….

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….

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….

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