Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for.

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.

I think the important thing about sisters is that they share the same minute, familiar life-style, the same little sets of rules. Therefore they can keep house with each other late in life, because they share the same bunch of housewifely prejudices. The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.