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

Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

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

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman.

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.

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.