I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had. - Margaret Mead

No skill, no special apti­tude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it was of one sex rather than the other. No child would be relentlessly shaped to one pattern of behavior, but instead there should be many patterns, in a world that had learned to allow to each individual the pattern which was most congenial to his gifts.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.