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.

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.

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.

The World is Bright & Beautiful

Today's new age parenting guarantees you'll hear children screaming, whining, and begging for items and attention in an airplane, store or any other public place.

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

I've used too many pistols in too many movies. They're kind of heavy to carry.

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

How do I take a step? How do I lift my foot off the ground, move it through the air a little bit and then bring it down? I had to teach myself to walk again.

Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.

Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.

I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.