It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up.

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.

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

By now, abortion should be obsolete. And I - and probably a lot of other feminists - wish it were obsolete, because abortion, in itself, is not a value - it is simply the right to chose, which is an essential value.

Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.

Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.