Feminism Quotes by Margaret Mead

“Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.”

— Margaret Mead

Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.

— Margaret Mead

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible

— Margaret Mead

Women have an important contribution to make.

— Margaret Mead

We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties.

— Margaret Mead

Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.

— Margaret Mead

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

— Margaret Mead

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

— Margaret Mead

We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates…

— Margaret Mead

Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to…

— Margaret Mead

Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution…

— Margaret Mead

Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with…

— Margaret Mead

The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human…

— Margaret Mead

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way…

— Margaret Mead

It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.

— Margaret Mead

Just as the difference in height between males is no longer a realistic issue, now that lawsuits have been substituted for hand-to-hand…

— Margaret Mead

The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging…

— Margaret Mead

We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly…

— Margaret Mead

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

Maleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the…

— Margaret Mead

It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male; it…

— Margaret Mead

We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn,…

— Margaret Mead

Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that…

— Margaret Mead

The suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to…

— Margaret Mead

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

— Margaret Mead