Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is not created out of whole cloth by the young child's biological impulses.
Margaret MeadSomehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
Margaret MeadI devoutly believe that there is no difficulty between two people for which both are not responsible.
Margaret MeadThe anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.
Margaret Mead