We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

The semimetaphysical problems of the individual and society, of egoism and altruism, of freedom and determinism, either disappear or remain in the form of different phases in the organization of a consciousness that is fundamentally social.

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

I devoutly believe that there is no difficulty between two people for which both are not responsible.

Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers abroad, they are focusing their anxieties on home. The reasons are not far to seek. We are at a turning point in human history. . . . We could turn our attention to the problems that going to the Moon certainly will not solve ... But I think this would be fatal to our future. . . . A society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die.

We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex.

‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.