There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother's health, well-being and autonomy and control of her own destiny is maximized by work outside the home.

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.

A woman without her sister is like a bird without her wings.

When someone else doesn’t believein you or your dreams, rememberit’s about them, not you.

I didn't really understand community until I moved to New Orleans.

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.

Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others.

Really if it's an hour or two after you've fallen asleep because you're in such a deep sleep at that point.

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.