The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over. — 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… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that… — 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
The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-heartedattempt to… — 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
I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast. ... In college, in some way… — 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
Every act of motherhood contains a dual intent, as the mother holds the child close and prepares it to move way from… — 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
