It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman. And as I had my father's kind of mind-which… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution… — 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
Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
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
