I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent. — 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
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class… — 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
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions. — 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
From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human… — 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
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being. — 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
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
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
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
As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was… — 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
Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach… — 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