Occupation: Writer Birth: February 4, 1921 Death: February 4, 2006
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….
No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor..
A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wa….
It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never face….
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive..
Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?.
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself..
Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength..
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman..
The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white..
If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has bor….
He's a male chauvinistic piglet..
The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own..
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 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….
I loved my kids. And I loved my house, and I loved a lot of things about my life in the 1950s. But there were a lot like me in that era, very overedu….
It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific labo….
Certain signs, some of them visible to the layman as well as the scientist, indicate that we have been watching an ice age approach for some time wit….
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….
When I was in high school, even in college, I didn't have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman..
Diversity has got to be a part of modern feminism, and I think that my feminism is stronger because its an inclusive thing. I won't be backed into a ….