There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even… — 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
I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Love is the invention of a few high cultures ... it is cultural artifact. To make love the requirement of a lifelong… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with… — 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
