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- Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views (1979), p. 249
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. 53
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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.