Economic equity is an enormous empowerment of women. Having jobs that provide income means that women can be a more effective force, a more equal for….

Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national co….

The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a life plan that can encompass ma….

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….

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches wit….

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 problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning tha….

There's increasing consciousness that a "command and control" style of management which one associates with a male model isn't necessarily what works….

Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women..

He's a male chauvinistic piglet..

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor..

life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. That is th….

Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that..

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 ….

Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can't be the perfect clone of the male superman and the perfect clone of the feminine m….

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth..

I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be..

I love newspapers. I've worked on newspapers, all my life. I've always loved it..

I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy..

I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just….

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them wit….