I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.

We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.

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

If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding way, they are penalized as being conspicuously better than the peer group. The culture tries to make the child with a gift into a one-sided person, to penalize him at every turn, to cause him trouble in making friends and to create conditions conducive to the development of a neurosis. Neither teachers, the parents of other children, nor the child peers will tolerate a Wunderkind.

We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.

It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.