[Feminism] asks that women be free to define themselves -- instead of having their identity defined for them, time and again, by their culture and their men.

The demand that women "return to femininity" is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to a fabled time when everyone was richer, younger, more powerful.

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to "choose" between public justice and private happiness.

The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built.

It is not possible to preserve one's identity by adjusting for any length of time to a frame of reference that is in itself destructive to it. It is very hard indeed for a human being to sustain such an 'inner' split - conforming outwardly to one reality, while trying to maintain inwardly the value it denies.

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.