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We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn, and that we may return to stricter regimentation of women...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.
The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
I am interested in what happens to people who find the whole of life so rewarding that they are able to move through it with the same kind of delight in which a child moves through a game.
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.