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| Margaret Mead
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. Because of their agelong training in human relations-for that is what feminine intuition really is-women have a special contribution to make to any group enterprise. Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman. And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed. If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever does.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. Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run. Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer. We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet. We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. |
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