If I Were A Man, I Would

Protectiveness Has Often Muffled The Sound Of Doors Closing Against Women.

Whatever I Wrote Was Heretical. It Offended The Editors Of The Women's Magazines.

While I Had Been, I Guess, Quite Brilliant, Academically, In My College Years, I Also Had Been Editor Of The Paper, And I Loved That. And, That Was A Much More Active Thing. And I Missed It When I Was Doing Graduate Work.

I Never Set Out To Write A Book To Change Women's Lives, To Change History. It's Like, 'who, Me?' Yes, Me. I Did It. And I'm Not That Different From Other Women. Maybe My Power And Glory Was That I Could Speak My Truth As A Woman And It Was The Truth Of Every Woman.

Each Woman Is Made To Feel It Is Her Own Cross To Bear If She Can't Be The Perfect Clone Of The Male Superman And The Perfect Clone Of The Feminine Mystique.