Quotes by Freda Adler

• 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.
• Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
• There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
• 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.
• Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
• Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
• 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.
• 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.
• The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.