Traditionally in American society, men have been trained for both competition and teamwork through sports, while women have been reared to merge their welfare with that of the family, with fewer opportunities for either independence or other team identifications, and fewer challenges to direct competition. In effect, women have been circumscribed within that unit where the benefit of one is most easily believed to be the benefit of all.

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

... as we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict. ... We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received.