It was the era that I later analyzed, the "feminine mystique" era, [when] "career woman" was a dirty word. And so I didn't want a career anymore. [But] I had to do something. So I started freelancing for women's magazines.

The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.

Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone ... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.

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.

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