It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male; it… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has… — 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
Even very recently, the elders could say: 'You know, I have been young and you never have been old.' But today's young… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I have been accused of having believed when I wrote Sex and Temperament that there are no sex differences... This, many readers… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one… — 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
