Margaret Mead Quote

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.

"Male and Female" in Ladies' Home Journal, Vol. 66, (September 1949), p. 36;