For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.
Never underestimate that a small group of people can hold up a liquor license. Sometimes, it’s the only thing that can.
I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the nature of adolescence itself or to the civilization? Under different conditions does adolescence present a different picture?
People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.
Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.
The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.
Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep.
Women have an important contribution to make.
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help average teachers approximate the performance of good teachers.
Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
For art to be reality, the whole sensuous being must be caught up in the experience.
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw.
All social change comes from the passion of individuals.