I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.

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 meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.

Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.

I think it's cool to be a rock star I don't think there are many. There aren't many who speak out and take risks. And I think that's important.

Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page.

I hadn't fought enough for the injustice of the Apartheid.

Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

I think he needs to stand up and say if he thought the president were wrong on policy and issues, he ought to say where.

Pursuits become habits.