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

I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

[Mead saw at least two major problems in dating. First, it encourages men and women to define heterosexual relationships as situational, rather than ongoing] You "have a date," you "go out with a date," you "groan because there isn't a decent date in town." A situation defined as containing a girl — or boy — of the right social background, the right degree of popularity, a little higher than your own.