Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-heartedattempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

An occupation that has no basis in sex-determined gifts can now recruit its ranks from twice as many potential artists.

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.

I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.

In each age there is a series of pressing questions which must be asked and answered. On the correctness of the questions depends the survival of those who ask; on the quality of the answers depends the quality of the life those survivors will lead.