Margaret Mead1901–1978- Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views (1979), p. 249
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need.
Attributed in The Quotable Woman (1991) by the Running Press, p. 53Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
- Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap (1970), p. 72
- Blackberry Winter, 1972





