Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.

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-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!

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

A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

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

The media and even, to some degree, leaders of women's organizations don't understand that the women's movement is an absolute part of society now. It is in the consciousness, it is taken for granted. It is part of the way women look at themselves, and women are looked at.

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