While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a….

Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone ... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and afte….

Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength..

Having expressed the rage against the laws and conditions that oppressed them - maybe even excess anger in the beginning was directed at men they cam….

I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women's magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying t….

The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity..

I'm against suppression of pornography. If you suppress guns - yes; if you want to suppress poverty - yes. These are the obscenities, the real brutal….

A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society..

Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows..

I'm my age and I feel glorious..

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

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….

Getting older is an adventure, not a problem..

The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American hou….

By now, abortion should be obsolete. And I - and probably a lot of other feminists - wish it were obsolete, because abortion, in itself, is not a val….

Being Jewish, you didn't get into a sorority. So I really was much more outgoing and gregarious. I really didn't want to spend an Emily Dickinson ado….

It was the era that I later analyzed, the "feminine mystique" era, [when] "career woman" was a dirty word. And so I didn't want a career anymore. [Bu….

the new mystique is that women can have it all. There's a whole new generation of women today, flogging themselves to compete for success according t….

Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it..

The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white..

American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife - but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren't just housewives, they were commu….