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

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

I didn't want to be in a situation where I was broader than the boys, which I was, in the academic world.

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

Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to pretend it's youth, you are going to miss it. You are going to miss the surprises, the possibilities, and the evolution that we are just beginning to know about because there are no role models, no guideposts, and no signs.

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.

There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother's health, well-being and autonomy and control of her own destiny is maximized by work outside the home.