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.

Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.

The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren't different, perhaps more so.

I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.

Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.

No skill, no special apti­tude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it was of one sex rather than the other. No child would be relentlessly shaped to one pattern of behavior, but instead there should be many patterns, in a world that had learned to allow to each individual the pattern which was most congenial to his gifts.

In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.