The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the father from temptation is a necessary condition of his continued social adjustment. The protections that are built up in the child against desire for the parent become the essential counterpart to the attitudes in the parent that protect the child.
Margaret MeadIn each age there is a series of pressing questions which must be asked and answered. On the correctness of the questions depends the survival of those who ask; on the quality of the answers depends the quality of the life those survivors will lead.
Margaret MeadTo demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
Margaret MeadNever underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
Margaret Mead