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
I think the important thing about sisters is that they share the same minute, familiar life-style, the same little sets of rules.… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young,… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed… — 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
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed.… — 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
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior. — 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
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
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
