I understood somehow my mother's frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn't have a real use of her ability.

You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.

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

life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. That is the reason for the religious revival and the new resonance of 'family.

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.

If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.

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.