Neither Woman Nor Man Lives By Work,

I Realized That What I Was Saying Was Threatening, Somehow, To The Editors Of Women's Magazines. That It Threatened The Very World They Were Trying To Paint, What I Then Called The "feminine Mystique."

Who Knows What Women Can Be When They Are Finally Free To Become Themselves? Who Knows What Women's Intelligence Will Contribute When It Can Be Nourished Without Denying Love?

What Had Really Caused The Women's Movement Was The Additional Years Of Human Life. At The Turn Of The Century Women's Life Expectancy Was Forty-six; Now It Was Nearly Eighty. Our Groping Sense That We Couldn't Live All Those Years In Terms Of Motherhood Alone Was "the Problem That Had No Name." Realizing That It Was Not Some Freakish Personal Fault But Our Common Problem As Women Had Enabled Us To Take The First Steps To Change Our Lives.

The Feminist Revolution Had To Be Fought Because Women Quite Simply Were Stopped At A State Of Evolution Far Short Of Their Human Capacity.

Some People Think I'm Saying, 'women Of The World Unite -- You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Men. It's Not True. You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Vacuum Cleaners.