Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation. – Margaret Mead
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. – Margaret Mead
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. – Margaret Mead
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead
Its not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didnt have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didnt have much to do with reality. – Elizabeth Gilbert