The suffering of either sex / of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong initiating or patriarchal role that is still demanded of him,...

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily,...

If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp...

I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over...

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials — to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman’s hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas...

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

“WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.”

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift...

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen...

Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need.

Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or...

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive

Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.

We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of...

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown… The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough...

We have nowhere else to go… this is all we have.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

To cherish the life of the world.

Some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes...

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear...

There is no reason to think a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens cannot change the world; Indeed, that’s the only thing that ever has.

We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.

I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman. And as I had my father’s kind of mind-which was also his mother’s-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green...

Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise

There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing…when we save our children, we save ourselves

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full...

Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological...