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Dancing is the only activity in which almost all ages and both sexes participate.
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties.
in all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman.
Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
For art to be reality, the whole sensuous being must be caught up in the experience.
In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.
Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.
We must have...a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
I devoutly believe that there is no difficulty between two people for which both are not responsible.
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.
It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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.
EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.
Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.
A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.