You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much

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

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

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.

Being Jewish, you didn't get into a sorority. So I really was much more outgoing and gregarious. I really didn't want to spend an Emily Dickinson adolescence reading poetry on gravestones, which I did.

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

The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous. But I think that education, and only education, has saved, and can continue to save, American women from the greater dangers of the feminine mystique.