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

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

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.

[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.

He's a male chauvinistic piglet.

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

I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn't want to be an academic.