Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.

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.

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.

Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.

I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.