An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.