Maleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play.

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

human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.

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.

Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.