The suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong initiating or patriarchal role that is still demanded of him, or of the female who has been given too much freedom of movement as a child to stay placidly within the house as an adult - this suffering, this discrepancy, this sense of failure in an enjoined role, is the point of leverage for social change.

No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.

I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.

Dancing is the only activity in which almost all ages and both sexes participate.

today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.

We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.