Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem….

Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality..

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mi….

in all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman..

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world..

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act..

The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the father from temp….

Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in terms of ….

If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems….

The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over..

We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards succe….

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society..

Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrella….

I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman..

Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back..

Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-heartedattempt to find a wa….

Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties..

An education not founded on Art will never succeed..

You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world..

I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best ….

The negative cautions of science are never popular..