The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.

Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.

the experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table, is an inescapable, delightful and repelling, desired and abhorred part of each child's life.

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.

I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.