I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior... we shall not really… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take"… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. — Margaret Mead Copy Share
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning. — Margaret Mead Copy Share
today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself. — Margaret Mead Copy Share
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown. — Margaret Mead Copy Share
“One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and not be held responsible.… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
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