The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the father from temptation is a necessary condition of his continued social adjustment. The protections that are built up in the child against desire for the parent become the essential counterpart to the attitudes in the parent that protect the child.

The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.

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.

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

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.

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.