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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to pretend it's youth, you are going to miss it. You are going to miss the surprises, the possibilities, and the evolution that we are just beginning to know about because there are no role models, no guideposts, and no signs.