16 Quotes by Elaine Morgan

Hacen falta dos para bailar, y hacen falta dos para convertir a una mujer en objeto sexual.

Imagine a 75-year-old man and 72-year-old woman watching everything they own go up in smoke.

They travel six to eight months a year.

There was nothing we could do about it,

It's not about getting money in our hands but getting them the clothes they need for now.

I pulled off to the side of the road under an overpass,

Where else is fatness at a premium? The answer is clear. There are two classes of mammals which are liable to accumulate large quantities of adipose tissue - hibernating mammals and aquatic mammals.

I believe the deeply rooted semantic confusion between 'man' as a male and 'man' as a species has been fed back into and vitiated a great deal of the speculation that goes on about the origins, development, and nature of the human race.

It's just as hard for man to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the species as it was to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the universe. He sees himself quite unconsciously as the main line of evolution, with a female satellite revolving around him as the moon revolves around the earth. This not only causes him to overlook valuable clues to our ancestry, but sometimes leads him into making statements that are arrant and demonstrable nonsense.