Never underestimate that a small group of people can hold up a liquor license. Sometimes, it's the only thing that can.

There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children... with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

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.

For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.

No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.

The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren't different, perhaps more so.