I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women

We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like

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

WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump you have to get it right the first time

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind