“Women feel and it suffices to steer them satisfactorily through life as well as to solve problems which leave men utterly helpless. It is only through feelings one can get in contact with them. There is but one way of understanding women and that is to love them.”

“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”

“Both men and women are conceived as merely capable of response to a situation that their society has already defined for them as sexual, and so the Arapesh feel that it is necessary to chaperon betrothed couples who are too young… with their definition of sex as a response to an external situation rather than as spontaneous desire, both men and women are regarded as helpless in the face of seduction. Parents warn their sons even more than they warn their daughters against permitting themselves to get into situations in which someone can make love to them.”

“People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.”

“The less our sons our trusted, the less women are able to really love them, and the more women feel entitled to use them as wallets.”

“There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer them, or turn them into literature.”

“There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. ”

“It is understandable that the perspectives of men and women on safety are so different--men and women live in different worlds… at core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.”

“He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men -- it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later.”

“Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.”