Dancing is the only activity in which almost all ages and both sexes participate. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human… — 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
And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
An occupation that has no basis in sex-determined gifts can now recruit its ranks from twice as many potential artists. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
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
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Maleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the… — 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
I had my father's mind, but he had his mother's mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
No skill, no special aptitude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it… — 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
Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
to the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
What are the determinative factors in the early training of the child which assures that it will be placid and contented, unaggressive… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly… — 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
Both men and women are conceived as merely capable of response to a situation that their society has already defined for them… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to… — 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
