By now, abortion should be obsolete. And I - and probably a lot of other feminists - wish it were obsolete, because abortion, in itself, is not a value - it is simply the right to chose, which is an essential value.

Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.

There's no question that the black middle class has benefited greatly by the civil rights movement. But there is a large black underclass that does not have access to jobs. If there's no clear road to income and status except crime, we should expect social problems. You can't solve this problem without addressing the economic issues, and the same is true with gender.

I'm my age and I feel glorious.

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.

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.

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