When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up.

In almost every professional field, in business and in the arts and sciences, women are still treated as second-class citizens. It would be a great service to tell girls who plan to work in society to expect this subtle, uncomfortable discrimination-tell them not to be quiet, and hope it will go away, but fight it. A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.

I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be.

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

When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.

I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world.