It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally...
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
We couldn't possibly know where it would lead but we knew it had to be done.
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her...
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.
It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.
Neither woman nor man lives by work or love alone.... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.
We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!