Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike… — 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
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything. — 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
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
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
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
Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men. — 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