“Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.”

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”

“Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.”

“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.”

“A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.”

“One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!”

“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”