We must have...a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
Margaret MeadMany women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well as private. But it is men, far more than women, who have been liberated by this change. For now that women use these terms, men no longer need to watch their own language in the presence of women. But is this a gain for women?
Margaret Meadthere are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
Margaret Mead When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
Margaret Mead