The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.

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

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.

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

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.

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.