Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

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.

I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to.

Our fathers were demons, ' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes.

A negative circle is the enemy of a positive future.

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind.

And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?

With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I'd done more, I could have been quite remarkable.

the description of lust was simple: two people learn they're compatible , attraction grows, and the ancient instinct to preserve the species kicks in.

Give a man an inch he will try to give you six in return.

My parents think I'm better under pressure.