Margaret MeadA small group of thoughtful people could change the world.361HumanityThought
Margaret MeadThe way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.361Thought
Margaret MeadNinety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of war, or what we have now, which is the psyc… ▶351HumanityTime
Margaret MeadThe young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to a… ▶351Thought
Margaret MeadThe 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. T… ▶373LifeThoughtTime
Margaret MeadI don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.352Reflection
Margaret MeadOne of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.363Humanity
Margaret MeadFor the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.364Time
Margaret MeadI do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. ✨ Quote Unquote. Book by Lloyd Cory, 1977.342Reading
Margaret MeadThere is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.342Life
Margaret MeadWomen have an important contribution to make.332Death
Margaret MeadWe have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.376Death
Margaret MeadEarth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and time belts, and yet brings people… ▶321HumanityTime
Margaret MeadThe mind is not sex-typed. ✨ Blackberry Winter ch. 5 (1972)377Thought
Margaret MeadI must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. ✨ Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (… ▶366Humanity
Margaret MeadWe 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. ✨ Attributed to Margaret Mead in A… ▶311Truth
Margaret MeadIt is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary... to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. ✨ Teacher'… ▶344Reading
Margaret MeadWe grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.367Hope
Margaret MeadIn the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present. ✨ Margaret Mead (1972). Blkberry Winter323HopeTime
Margaret MeadThere is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.312Politics
Margaret MeadLife in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. ✨ MARGARET MEAD (1959). PEOPLE AND PLACES312HumanityLifeTime
Margaret MeadThe suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong initiating or patriarchal role that is still demanded of him… ▶313Hope
Margaret MeadSamoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is not created o… ▶368Love
Margaret MeadI 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 … ▶313ReadingThought
Margaret MeadThe most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help average teachers approximate … ▶357Humor
Margaret MeadIt is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.281Death
Margaret MeadBecause of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise. ✨ Blackbe… ▶292Humanity
Margaret MeadThis is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill the defective child at birth, to leav… ▶325Humanity
Margaret MeadWomen want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible. ✨ In Quote Magazine 15 June 1958325Time
Margaret MeadAnd as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed. ✨ Margaret Mead (1972). Blkberry Winter3610Thought
