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

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

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

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.

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

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.

Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.