Quotes: Favorites Quotes: Author Quotes: Topics Quotes: Collection Sig Services Blueprint Results Process Contact
Background Image
Both men and women are conceived as merely capable of response to a situation that their society has already defined for them as sexual, and so the arapesh feel that it is necessary to chaperon betrothed couples who are too young... with their definition of sex as a response to an external situation rather than as spontaneous desire, both men and women are regarded as helpless in the face of seduction. parents warn their sons even more than they warn their daughters against permitting themselves to get into situations in which someone can make love to them.
-Margaret Mead
Please Wait....
Translating....

Both Men And Women Are Conceived As

Margaret Mead
Both men and women are conceived as merely capable of response to a situation that their society has already defined for them as sexual, and so the arapesh feel that it is necessary to chaperon betrothed couples who are too young... with their definition of sex as a response to an external situation rather than as spontaneous desire, both men and women are regarded as helpless in the face of seduction. parents warn their sons even more than they warn their daughters against permitting themselves to get into situations in which someone can make love to them.
Views: 5
Cite this Page
Prevent plagiarism by providing proper attribution.
APA FORMAT
Embed this Quote
Copy this HTML code to embed the quote on your website or blog.
HTML CODE
Topic
Daughter Sex Couple

More From Margaret Mead

When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable of comprehending the stars and the planets, talking about the weather; men and women, with hands capable of creating works of art, using those hands only for routine tasks; men and women, capable of independent thought, using their minds as a bowling-alley for popular ideas; men and women, capable of greatness, wallowing in mediocrity; men and women, capable of self-expression, slowly dying a mental death while they babble the confused monotone of the mob?
Art Stars Confused
… our sons must become men – such men as we hope our daughters, born and unborn, will be pleased to live among. our sons will not grow into women. their way is more difficult than that of our daughters, for they must move away from us, without us. hopefully ours have what they have learned from us, and a howness to forge into their own image.
Daughter Moving Son
The deeper purpose of a more positive attitude toward men is a better life for the children who are parented by the men who are their dads and stepdads; less shame for our sons who will become men; and, for our daughters, a deeper understanding of men's desire to please that leaves them feeling their willingness to please is not unrequited but returned - allowing our daughters to feel less lonely and more loved. if we earn more and love less, we pay for a home in which we do not live.
Daughter Lonely Children
Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. and seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. in fact, it's more of an evocation of what you do. it's more an evocation of seduction.
Art Firsts Facts
When our embassy is attacked in benghazi by terrorists and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. when russia invades ukraine and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. when syria crosses the red line and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. when iran launches tests of ballistic missiles and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. when north korea attacks sony pictures and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. in other words, mrs. clinton, you cannot lead from behind. we must respond when we are attacked or provoked.
Russia Ukraine Iran
A definition is nothing else but an explication of the meaning of a word, by words whose meaning is already known. hence it is evident that every word cannot be defined; for the definition must consist of words; and there could be no definition, if there were not words previously understood without definition.
Definitions Understood Defined
Similar Quotes
By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.
Love Heartbreak Definitions
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Power Aphrodisiac Definitions
The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
Animal Ordinary Definitions
But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? by definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?
Mean Monsters Definitions

Trending Author

Mort Kondracke
Mort Kondracke
Mandy Moore
Mandy Moore
Curtis LeMay
Curtis LeMay
Augustine Birrell
Augustine Birrell
Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie
Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Baker Eddy
Category
Information
Inspirational
Philosophy
Personal Growth
Happiness & Joy
Life Lessons
Success & Business
Motivation
Quote AI Helper
Hello! I'm your AI assistant. Ask me anything about quotes or authors!