With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.

Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?

The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.

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

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.