I’ve been married three times – and each time I married the right person.
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
It has been a woman’s task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.
War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.
Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man.
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn’t be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?
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.