“A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.”

—  Margaret Mead

Attributed in The New Quotable Woman (1993) by Elaine Partnow, p. 331
1990s

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