Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

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.

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

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

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

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.