We need to stop raising boys to think that they need to prove their masculinity by being controlling or by not showing emotion or by not being little girls.

In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker's productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband's pain and suffering.

We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

We have to know before we can act.

Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.