“Japan likewise put her hopes of victory on a different basis from that prevalent in the United States. (...) Even when she was winning, her civilian statesmen, her High Command, and her soldiers repeated that this was no contest between armaments; it was pitting of our faith in things against their faith in spirit.”

“The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.”

“I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.”

“No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.”

“I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.”

“The trouble with lifeisn't that there is no answer,but that there are so many answers”

“I asked her if she believed in love, and she smiled and said it was her most elaborate method of self-harm.”