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Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise. - [Intuition] Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need. - [Questions] Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to cooperate. - [Cooperation] Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown. - [Humanity] I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. - [Manners] 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. - [Behavior] Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. - [Life] Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. - [Education] Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - [Change] No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps in. - [Family] One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. - [Necessity] We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them. - [Potential] We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country. - [Religion] We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. - [Environment] Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible. - [Mediocrity] If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. - Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies [Society]
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