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

I just decided that I didn't want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn't active enough for me.

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.

A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

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.

If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.