A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.

Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.

Life is stronger than death.

A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.