Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines.

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.

It would do her good to have some demons to fight, to be swung out in space and held over some bottomless pit now and then.

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste

Oh death you can wait keep your distance.

Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.

Man,--the aristocrat amongst the animals.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

Remembering is a great invention of the mind.

I let the evening unfold. I'm the sort of guy who likes to sit in the chair and look at the wine glass.