Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change.

We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.

Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

They're all qualities wrongly called feminine: attention to detail, patience, empathy. I don't have children, but I was raised as a female to have those qualities because they're perceived as feminine. Until men are raised with those qualities, too, they won't have the full circle of human qualities.

If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.

I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.

Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.