“My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.”

“I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw”

“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?”

“Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.”

“If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.”

“Women have an important contribution to make.”

“We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.”