Margaret Mead

I have been accused of having believed when I wrote Sex and Temperament that there are no sex differences. . . This, many readers felt, was too much. It was too pretty. I must have found what I was looking for. But this misconception comes from a lack of understanding of what anthropology means, of the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder, that which one would not have been able to guess.