I didn't want to be in a situation where I was broader than the boys, which I was, in the academic world.

Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.

Some people think I'm saying, 'Women of the world unite -- you have nothing to lose but your men. It's not true. You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaners.

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.

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

The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.

The thin line between life and death is still under construction.

I’ve been searching a long time for something I think I lost. I felt like I found something when I saw you back there.

Integrity reveals beauty.

The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.

The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.

Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other.

A commitment to love and justice demands the transformation of social structures as well as of hearts.

We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances.

I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.

Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other is not so gentle.