/staff avatar Quotation added by staff

Why not add this quote to your bookmarks?


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.   Mead, Margaret

This quote is about marriage · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.


A bit about Mead, Margaret ...

Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist.

These people bookmarked this quote:

  • Nobody has bookmarked this quote yet.

More on the author

This quote around the web

Loading...

 

Search Quotations Book