Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

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

We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'

Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.

The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - "Is this all?"

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different, and the choice to be generative in other ways can at last be made, and is being made by many women now, without guilt.