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

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.

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 feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

You don't know what love is until someone lives with you while you write a book.

I see Earth! It is so beautiful.

Love, I think, is by necessity constructed of a ladder of lies you climb together.

Each of us is equally valued in the eyes of the Lord.

Religion has always persecuted science.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.

Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.

If the people wanted my head I would bow without demur. If I had lost the confidence or respect of the people I would not want to live. The tragedy of the drama is that the very opposite is true.