You can have it all, just not all at the same time.

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

A woman today who has no goal, no purpose, no ambition patterning her days into the future, making her stretch and grow beyond that small score of years in which her body can fill its biological function, is committing a kind of suicide.

Woman's sexual problems are, in this sense, by-products of the suppression of her basic need to grow and fulfill her potentialities as a human being, potentialities which the mystique of feminine fulfillment ignores.

For human suffering there is a reason; perhaps the reason has not been found because the right questions have not been asked, or pressed far enough.

There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who have never risked an exploration of the unknown, who have never attempted the kind of creativity of which men and women are potentially capable.

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.

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