“Women have an important contribution to make.”

“I measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her fellow human beings.”

“I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.”

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

“An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift”

“You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.”

“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?”