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.

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

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

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

The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.

Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.

The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife - freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.