I devoutly believe that there is no difficulty between two people for which both are not responsible.

Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is not created out of whole cloth by the young child's biological impulses.

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.

We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.