“No skill, no special aptitude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it was of one sex rather than the other. No child would be relentlessly shaped to one pattern of behavior, but instead there should be many patterns, in a world that had learned to allow to each individual the pattern which was most congenial to his gifts.”

— Margaret Mead

Source: 1930s, Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935), p. 321

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American anthropologist 1901–1978

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