The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous. But I think that education, and only education, has saved, and can continue to save, American women from the greater dangers of the feminine mystique.

Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.

I loved my kids. And I loved my house, and I loved a lot of things about my life in the 1950s. But there were a lot like me in that era, very overeducated housewives.

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

You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Diversity has got to be a part of modern feminism, and I think that my feminism is stronger because its an inclusive thing. I won't be backed into a corner that polarizes me against other women. And I wished they wouldn't be either.