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….

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

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..

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

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….

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

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

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible..

Britons put up with, Americans fix, Canadians cope.

Both men and women are conceived as merely capable of response to a situation that their society has already defined for them as sexual, and so the A….

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet..

Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world..

The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human….

Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves..

In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists..

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary..

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..

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being..

I discovered when I had a child of my own that I had become a biased observer of small children. Instead of looking at them with affectionate but non….

Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything..