Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines..

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

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

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

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….

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….

...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….

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….

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….

There are some die-hard male chauvinist pigs and there are some Neanderthal women who are threatened by equality - but the great majority, polls say ….

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….

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

If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class..

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with ….

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

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….

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….

The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous.….

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….