Margaret Mead Quotes on Gender roles

3 quotes

  1. Because of their age-long training in human relations- for that is what feminine intuition really is- women have a special contribution to make to any group enterprise.

  2. The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

  3. Throughout history females have picked providers. Males have picked anything.

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