It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.

An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.

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 muffles and distorts the contribution women could make.

The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.

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

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.