And in the last decade what had seemed normal and irreversible aging decline has, in fact, been reversed with changes in diet, exercise, lifestyle, and environment.

We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.

Our daughters grow up with the same possibilities as our sons.

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

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

Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.

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.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

Women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps...they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.

Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can't be the perfect clone of the male superman and the perfect clone of the feminine mystique.

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework -- an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

It was the era that I later analyzed, the feminine mystique era, when career woman was a dirty word. And so I didn't want a career anymore. But I had to do something. So I started freelancing for women's magazines.

To limit one's field of inquiry to the function of an institution in a given social system, with no alternatives considered, provides an infinite number of rationalizations for all the inequalities and inequities of that system.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to be themselves.

There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother's health, well-being and autonomy and control of her own destiny is maximized by work outside the home.

The new mystique is that women can have it all. There's a whole new generation of women today, flogging themselves to compete for success according to the male model -- in a work world structured for men with wives to handle the details of life.

It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.