Conflict begins at the moment of birth.

Conflict is inevitable, the source of all growth, and an absolute necessity if one is to be alive.

psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life.

As other perceptions arise...the total vision of human possibilities enlarges and is transformed.

They [women] can use their abilities to support each other, even as they develop more effective and appropriate ways of dealing with power.... Women do not need to diminish other women[they] need the power to advance their own development, but they do not need the power to limit the development of others.

The question is still asked of women: 'How do you propose to answer the need for child care?' That is an obvious attempt to structure conflict in the old terms. The questions are rather: 'If we as a human community want children, how does the total society propose to provide for them?'.

In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be.