Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

Most fathers don't threaten to disembowel their daughter's boyfriends."

"That's not true. And anyway, that's not what I actually said. It was much worse.

The twins' biological mother gave them to the orphanage because she couldn't afford them and because she was not married, and that is just not acceptable there.

Morals being mostly only social habits and circumstantial necessities.

The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.