No skill, no special apti­tude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it was of one sex rather than the other. No child would be relentlessly shaped to one pattern of behavior, but instead there should be many patterns, in a world that had learned to allow to each individual the pattern which was most congenial to his gifts.

In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

to the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits only a very partial legacy. The more whole the culture, the more whole each member, each man, each woman, each child will be.

We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.

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

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