Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.

Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, 'Go to sleep by yourselves.' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.

There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children... with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.

To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.

The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.

Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only one. Where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, business man or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts and varying interests.