Margaret Mead

Women have an important contribution to make.

— Margaret Mead

Britons put up with, Americans fix, Canadians cope

— Margaret Mead

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

— Margaret Mead

An education not founded on Art will never succeed.

— Margaret Mead

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

— Margaret Mead

The negative cautions of science are never popular.

— Margaret Mead

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

— Margaret Mead

The mind is not sex-typed.

— Margaret Mead

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.

— Margaret Mead

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

— Margaret Mead

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible

— Margaret Mead

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”

— Margaret Mead

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

— Margaret Mead

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.

— Margaret Mead

Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.

— Margaret Mead

Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.

— Margaret Mead

The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions…

— Margaret Mead

Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has…

— Margaret Mead

Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.

— Margaret Mead

Life is in one of its smoother phases ... I've no responsibilities in the world except friends and students and cherishing the…

— Margaret Mead

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away…

— Margaret Mead

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age,…

— Margaret Mead

Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain…

— Margaret Mead

It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place…

— Margaret Mead

The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging…

— Margaret Mead

Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in…

— Margaret Mead

No skill, no special apti­tude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it…

— Margaret Mead

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior... we shall not really…

— Margaret Mead

I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study…

— Margaret Mead

I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the…

— Margaret Mead

In each age there is a series of pressing questions which must be asked and answered. On the correctness of the questions…

— Margaret Mead

Just as the difference in height between males is no longer a realistic issue, now that lawsuits have been substituted for hand-to-hand…

— Margaret Mead

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a…

— Margaret Mead

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

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one…

— Margaret Mead

Both men and women are conceived as merely capable of response to a situation that their society has already defined for them…

— Margaret Mead

Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt…

— Margaret Mead

Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations…

— Margaret Mead

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

In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a…

— Margaret Mead