Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines.

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.

This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is somehow responsible for increasing juvenile delinquency or the increase in divorce rate, is just so much bullshit.

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

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.

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.