Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.
It is typical, in America, that a person’s hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.
Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly...
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
The mind is not sex-typed.
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.
The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It’s one reason why they don’t die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.
The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.