Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.

The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.

Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the day, the children are schooled outside it, and practically all women who work for money must go outside to earn their living.

Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty ... don't try to educate me ... don't protect me.

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of God, to men.