Margaret Mead Quotes


61 quotes:

"I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in this world"
Author: Mead Quotes Category: Worth Quotes
"I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce"
Author: Mead Quotes Category: Women Quotes
"The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer."
Author: Mead Quotes Category: Science Quotes Scientists Quotes
"I learned the value of hard work by working hard."
Author: Mead Quotes Category: Work Quotes Scholars And Scholarship Quotes
"The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting lice in half with their teeth"
Author: Mead Quotes Category: Relationships Quotes
"The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone"
Author: Mead Quotes Category: Power Quotes
"Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible"
Author: Mead Quotes Category: Men Quotes
"Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation."
Author: Mead Quotes Category: Men And Women Quotes
"I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person."
Author: Mead Quotes Category: Marriage Quotes
"To cherish the life of the world."
Author: Mead Quotes Category: Life Quotes
"Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive"
Author: Mead Quotes Category: Human Nature Quotes
"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, we've put in an impossible situation."
Author: Mead Quotes Category: Family Quotes
"Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law."
Author: Mead Quotes Category: Family Quotes
"I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman. And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed."
Author: Mead Quotes Category: Doubt Quotes
"The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations."
Author: Mead Quotes Category: Marriage Quotes Civilization Quotes
"Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, businessman or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts, and varying interests."
Author: Mead Quotes Category: Choice Quotes
"Some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing."
Author: Mead Quotes Category: Childhood Quotes
"When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed."
Author: Mead Quotes Category: Body Quotes Contemplation Quotes
"And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own."
Author: Mead Quotes Category: Birth Quotes Humility Quotes
"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 cowardly"
Author: Mead Quotes Category: Behavior Quotes

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