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.

If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. But as a women you didn't even think about discrimination.

Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.

It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone ... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.

The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.

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