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 vacuum cleaners.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

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 nourished without denying love?

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 after Freud boils down to that.

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. [But] I had to do something. So I started freelancing for women's magazines.

I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.

It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.