Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achiev… - Margaret Mead

It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.

During the last hundred years parents and teachers have ceased to take childhood and adolescence for granted. They have attempted to fit education to the needs of the child, rather than to press the child into an inflexible educational mould. To this new task they have been spurred by two forces, the growth of the science of psychology, and the difficulties and maladjustments of youth.