Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.

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.

Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of war, or what we have now, which is the psychological equivalent of war, does the nuclear family prevail, because it's the most mobile unit that can ensure the survival of the species. But for the full flowering of the human spirit we need groups, tribes.

It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.

Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.

The negative cautions of science are never popular.