“I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.”
“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
“Women have an important contribution to make.”
“Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.”
“Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For indeed that's all who ever have. ”
“I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?”