Quotes by Mead, Margaret

Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized >>

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself >>

The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themsel >>

Quotations about Cities and City Life

Paris is the café of Europe. >>

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nons >>

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold >>

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret