If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. But as a women you didn't even think about discrimination.

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

Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.

Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?

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

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

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