Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-heartedattempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

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

Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.

The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.

From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.