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.

Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.

Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.

Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.

I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.

If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding way, they are penalized as being conspicuously better than the peer group. The culture tries to make the child with a gift into a one-sided person, to penalize him at every turn, to cause him trouble in making friends and to create conditions conducive to the development of a neurosis. Neither teachers, the parents of other children, nor the child peers will tolerate a Wunderkind.

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.