We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'

...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps...they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.

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.

You can have it all, just not all at the same time.

I didn't want to be in a situation where I was broader than the boys, which I was, in the academic world.

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.

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.