„We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.“

— Margaret Mead

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„Historically our own culture has relied for the creation of rich and contrasting values upon many artificial distinctions, the most striking of which is sex. It will not be by the mere abolition of these distinctions that society will develop patterns in which individual gifts are given place instead of being forced into an ill-fitting mould. 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.“
— Margaret Mead
„Each generation thinks it invented sex“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry. The soul has no sex, no country, no place, no time.“
— Swami Vivekananda
„There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death?“
— Hunter S. Thompson
„Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.“
— Margaret Mead