When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

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

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.

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can't be the perfect clone of the male superman and the perfect clone of the feminine mystique.

I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn't mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes.