I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.

Certain signs, some of them visible to the layman as well as the scientist, indicate that we have been watching an ice age approach for some time without realizing what we are seeing... Scientists predict that it will cause great snows which the world has not seen since the last ice age thousands of years ago.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I did it. And I'm not that different from other women. Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman.

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.

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