I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.

If you look at many of the women who find themselves with cold, distant, difficult, cruel men, it's because they had cold, distant, difficult, cruel fathers who made them feel that there was no alternative or, at a minimum, who made them choose someone like their father in order to change in this other man what they couldn't change in their fathers.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.