For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for ceremonial occasions, with a few startling exceptions resist alcohol, because if one drinks one loses one's orientation. Orientation is felt as a protection rather than as a strait jacket and its loss provokes extreme anxiety.
Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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 have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.
American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order of dominance is length of time in the fishbowl. The oldest resident picks on the newest resident, and if the newest resident is removed to a new bowl, he, as oldest resident, will pick on the newcomers.
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
Women have an important contribution to make.
And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.
The suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong initiating or patriarchal role that is still demanded of him, or of the female who has been given too much freedom of movement as a child to stay placidly within the house as an adult - this suffering, this discrepancy, this sense of failure in an enjoined role, is the point of leverage for social change.
War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.
Love is the invention of a few high cultures ... it is cultural artifact. To make love the requirement of a lifelong marriage is exceedingly difficult, and only a few people can achieve it. I don't believe in setting universal standards that a large proportion of people can't reach.
From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone
EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.
It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.
I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman.
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.
A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.
Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions.
to the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits only a very partial legacy. The more whole the culture, the more whole each member, each man, each woman, each child will be.
The mind is not sex-typed.
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