I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?

There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.

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

today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

Women have an important contribution to make.

When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.