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."

"As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it."

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

"The "feminine" woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow."

"[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."