Margaret Mead

The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.

— Margaret Mead

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

— Margaret Mead

Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.

— Margaret Mead

Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity…

— Margaret Mead

All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an…

— 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

I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw

— Margaret Mead

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, its the only thing that ever has.

— Margaret Mead

The mind is not sex-typed.

— Margaret Mead

Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and…

— Margaret Mead

If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding…

— Margaret Mead

A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its…

— Margaret Mead

In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs…

— Margaret Mead

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

— Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead was both a student of civilization and an exemplar of it. To a public of millions, she brought the central…

— Margaret Mead

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny…

— Margaret Mead

in all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman.

— Margaret Mead

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

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

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

Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an…

— Margaret Mead

the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children.

— Margaret Mead

No matter how free divorce, how frequently marriages break up, in most societies there is the assumption of permanent mating, of the…

— 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

I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.

— Margaret Mead