Best Margaret Mead Words
- Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. Bad Ass
- Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible. Mediocre
- Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. Die
- Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support,… All
- For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. Censored
- And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own. Baby
- The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. Adult
- It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. Accept
- Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. Behavior
- It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely… Any
- Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. Aggressive
- Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children. Children
- I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world. Accurate
- Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to… Able
- Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate. Bathroom
- Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. Century
- The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over. Air
- Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary. Man
- Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. Children
- We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have. All
- A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the… Answer
- As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the… Adult
- The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind. Altogether
- I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw Inspirational
- Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone. Decency
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