I am interested in what happens to people who find the whole of life so rewarding that they are able to move… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
What are the determinative factors in the early training of the child which assures that it will be placid and contented, unaggressive… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. — 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
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
Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“We must turn all of our educational efforts to training our children for the choices which will confront them... The child who… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Everybody's suffering is mine but not everybody's murdering ... I do not distinguish for one moment whether my child is in danger… — 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
The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
[Among the Arapeh... both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community...] If one comments upon a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Every act of motherhood contains a dual intent, as the mother holds the child close and prepares it to move way from… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Our human situation no longer permits us to make armed dichotomies between those who are good and those who are evil, those… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
the experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table,… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children... with the fact of child-bearing out of the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
to the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
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 Image
Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
