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Freda Adler
American
Educator
About the author
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
Freda Adler,
American
Educator
#Heart
#Man
#Needs
#Change
#Order
#Laws
#Contradiction
#Conformity
Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
Freda Adler,
American
Educator
#Law
#Man
#Woman
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
Freda Adler,
American
Educator
#May
#Control
#Justification
#Chivalry
The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.
Freda Adler,
American
Educator
#Culture
#Morality
#Behavior
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Freda Adler,
American
Educator
#Crime
#Power
Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
Freda Adler,
American
Educator
#Crime
Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.
Freda Adler,
American
Educator
#Experience
#Perceptions
The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.
Freda Adler,
American
Educator
#Knowledge
The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.
Freda Adler,
American
Educator
#Women
#Sex