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“Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.”
“Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.”
“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”
“Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.”
“Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.”
“Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.”
“For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.”
“I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.”
“Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.”
“A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”
“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.”
“We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.”
“Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.”
“When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street it couldn't be anywhere but Canada but how can I prove it?”
“No matter how many communes anybody invents the family always creeps back.”
“Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.”
“You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds.”
“We make our own criminals and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also...”
“Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”
“In almost any society I think the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.”
