The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.
Margaret MeadI have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.
Margaret MeadThe institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.
Margaret MeadWonder is very important, because if we never wondered, we would never get to the point of asking questions. Yet wonder may lead people to write poetry or to paint pictures or to pray, as well as to ask the kinds of questions about the world and themselves that can be answered by science.
Margaret Mead