I Love Newspapers. I've Worked

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.

It Is Frightening When A Woman Finally Realizes That There Is No Answer To The Question 'who Am I' Except The Voice Inside Herself.

I Won A Really Big Fellowship To Go Straight On To Get My Ph.d. And I Went Through Agonies Of Indecision, And Then I Decided Not To Accept It. I Just Decided I Didn't Want To Be An Academic.

I Never Set Out To Write A Book To Change Women's Lives, To Change History. It's Like, 'who, Me?' Yes, Me. I Did It. And I'm Not That Different From Other Women. Maybe My Power And Glory Was That I Could Speak My Truth As A Woman And It Was The Truth Of Every Woman.

Just As Darkness Is Sometimes Defined As The Absence Of Light, So Age Is Defined As The Absence Of Youth.