The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.
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Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
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Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
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