Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.

If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.

The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at the dead feminists. It is the joke that Freudian thought played on living women, twisting the memory of the feminists into the man-eating phantom of the feminine mystique, shriveling the very wish to be more than just a wife and mother.

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

When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up.

I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?