I Knew One Thing. I Did Not

In Almost Every Professional Field, In Business And In The Arts And Sciences, Women Are Still Treated As Second-class Citizens. It Would Be A Great Service To Tell Girls Who Plan To Work In Society To Expect This Subtle, Uncomfortable Discrimination-tell Them Not To Be Quiet, And Hope It Will Go Away, But Fight It. A Girl Should Not Expect Special Privileges Because Of Her Sex, But Neither Should She "adjust" To Prejudice And Discrimination.

The Man Who Is Extremely And Dangerously Hungry Has No Other Interest But Food. Capacities Not Useful For The Satisfying Of Hunger Are Pushed Into The Background. 'but What Happens To Man's Desires When There Is Plenty Of Food And His Belly In Chronically Filled? At Once, Other (and Higher) Needs Emerge And These, Rather Than The Psychological Hungers, Dominate The Organism.

...women Who 'adjust' As Housewives, Who Grow Up Wanting To Be 'just A Housewife,' Are In As Much Danger As The Millions Who Walked To Their Own Death In The Concentration Camps...they Ate Suffering A Slow Death Of Mind And Spirit.

If Divorce Has Increased By One Thousand Percent, Don't Blame The Women's Movement. Blame The Obsolete Sex Roles On Which Our Marriages Were Based.

When I Was In High School, Even In College, I Didn't Have Any Real Image Of A Career Woman Or A Professional Woman.