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

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

EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.

Every act of motherhood contains a dual intent, as the mother holds the child close and prepares it to move way from her, as she supports the child and stands it firmly on its own feet, and as she guards it against danger and sends it out across the yard, down by the stream, and across the traffic-crowded highway. Unless a mother can do both - gather her child close and turn her child out toward the world - she will fail in her purpose.

We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.

to the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits only a very partial legacy. The more whole the culture, the more whole each member, each man, each woman, each child will be.

The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the father from temptation is a necessary condition of his continued social adjustment. The protections that are built up in the child against desire for the parent become the essential counterpart to the attitudes in the parent that protect the child.