we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.

Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.

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

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.

The suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong initiating or patriarchal role that is still demanded of him, or of the female who has been given too much freedom of movement as a child to stay placidly within the house as an adult - this suffering, this discrepancy, this sense of failure in an enjoined role, is the point of leverage for social change.