1. “Chosen motherhood is the real liberation.”
2. “Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.”
3. “The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.”
4. “Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
5. “The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.”
6. “A good woman is one who loves passionately…takes responsibility, and shapes society.”
7. “Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.”
8. “Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.”
9. “Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?”
10. “It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.”
11. “You can show more of reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much.”
12. “For human suffering there is a reason; perhaps the reason has not been found because the right questions have not been asked, or pressed enough.”
13. “Dominance is burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.”
14. “It is not possible to preserve one’s identity by adjusting for any length of time to a frame of reference that is in itself destructive to it.”
15. “Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.”
