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

When I was in high school, even in college, I didn't have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman.

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 responsible for increasing juvenile delinquency or the increase in divorce rate, is just so much bullshit.

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.

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 not have access to jobs. If there's no clear road to income and status except crime, we should expect social problems. You can't solve this problem without addressing the economic issues, and the same is true with gender.

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

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 overeducated housewives.