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

I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

You can have it all, just not all at the same time.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women's intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love?

[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.

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

American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife - but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren't just housewives, they were community leaders.