It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.

The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw

Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.

Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.