The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

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?

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 feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

A smile is the key to the gate of heaven and love is the road which will get you there.

Gratitude is a soul blooming profusely!

We would all benefit by shifting our focus from seeing pain as bad to seeing pain as motivation to change.

I feel like a nineteen forties teenager at a Frank Sinatra concert! (On finally being published)

Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed, will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come.

Every dog, we are told, has his day, unless there are more dogs than days.

Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

For pastors who have a dream and who are walking in obedience but still don't have the resources they need, don't worry. Keep walking in obedience.

I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't.