For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh… — 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
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
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
Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Even very recently, the elders could say: 'You know, I have been young and you never have been old.' But today's young… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Margaret Mead was both a student of civilization and an exemplar of it. To a public of millions, she brought the central… — 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
Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning. — Margaret Mead Copy Share
today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself. — Margaret Mead Copy Share
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
Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown. — Margaret Mead Copy Share
“One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and not be held responsible.… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
