It [this book] is, very simply, an account of how three primitive societies have grouped their social attitudes towards temperament about the very ob… - Margaret Mead

Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. ~Margaret Mead

I have been accused of having believed when I wrote Sex and Temperament that there are no sex differences … This, many readers felt, was too much. It was too pretty. I must have found what I was looking for. But this misconception comes from a lack of understanding of what anthropology means, of the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder, that which one would not have been able to guess.

Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.