Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions..

A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know..

We must have...a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust..

Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well a….

I have been accused of having believed when I wrote Sex and Temperament that there are no sex differences... This, many readers felt, was too much. I….

most people prefer to carry out the kinds of experiments that allow the scientist to feel that he is in full control of the situation rather than sur….

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young..

Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achiev….

It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male; it frightens the men, unsexes the women, and ….

In each age there is a series of pressing questions which must be asked and answered. On the correctness of the questions depends the survival of tho….

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates..

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior..

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment..

Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay..

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

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

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 arb….

I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person..

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time..

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing..

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night..