"The notion that we are products of our environment is our greatest sin; we are products of our choices." Margaret Mead (this may not be her exact wo… - Margaret Mead

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

[Mead described the Arapesh as a culture in which both sexes were] placid and contented, unaggressive and noninitiatory, noncompetitive and responsive, warm, docile, and trusting.

We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex.