We couldn't possibly know where it would lead but we knew it had to be done.

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.

When you're hurting, you hurt yourself.

Even hell will give you an incentive not to reach for heaven.

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

The family who prays will never be parted. Their circle in Heaven unbroken shall stand. God will say enter my good faithful servant. The family who prays never shall part.

Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

We know that the next several generations need a better world to live in, which can only be a post-Obama World.

She attempted to turn again; I held on. I wasn't holding tight enough to keep her, but she wasn't pulling hard enough to get away.

You'll find sympathy in the dictionary between sh*t and suicide.

Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.