Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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.
Men weren’t really the enemy – they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
I love newspapers. I’ve worked on newspapers, all my life. I’ve always loved it.
A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she “adjust” to prejudice and discrimination.
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
My adolescence was quite miserable, when I look back on it, at least my early part of my adolescence. Because there was anti-Semitism in Peoria, and I didn’t feel that when I was in elementary school.