An occupation that has no basis in sex-determined gifts can now recruit its ranks from twice as many potential artists.
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman.
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
Any town that doesn’t have sidewalks doesn’t love its children.
Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality...
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth’s safety.
In each age there is a series of pressing questions which must be asked and answered. On the correctness of the questions depends the survival of those who ask; on the quality of the answers depends the quality of the life those survivors will lead.
I had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn, and that we may return to stricter regimentation of women...
All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.
Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions.
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.