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
Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons… — 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
In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Dear Math, please grow up and solve your own problems. I'm tired of solving them for you. Always remember that you are… — 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
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