I loved my kids. And I loved my house, and I loved a lot of things about my life in the 1950s. But there were a lot like me in that era, very overeducated housewives.

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.

Mismatches destroy us all, even the most tender ones, and most never have the courage to break someone else's heart to follow their own.

Get the Girl, " he demanded. "She knows too much!"Dammit. Why did people keep presuming that, and if it was true, why the hell couldn't my GPA reflect the fact?

I don't know how long I kept at it...I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still.It didn't seem to be summer any more

If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.

Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.

Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so.

The prison scandal is really hurting President Bush's poll numbers. In fact, I hear he's already working on his concession smirk.

Reality is only just a word.

You can be passionate about anything.

It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity.