When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.

If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.

I didn't want to be in a situation where I was broader than the boys, which I was, in the academic world.

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.

[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.