Margaret Mead Quotes About Sleep

Quotes about: Sleep

• Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Moving, Sleep

• This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill the defective child at birth, to leave the sleeping pills beside the bed of the cancer patient ... It is the duty of society to protect the physicians from such requests.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Cancer, Sleep

• The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep. The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep.

  Margaret Mead

  Running, Children, Fall

  "Balinese Character". Book by Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, 1942.

• the experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table, is an inescapable, delightful and repelling, desired and abhorred part of each child's life.

  Margaret Mead

  Brother, Children, Sleep

  Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”

• Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, 'Go to sleep by yourselves.' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Sleep, Independent

  "Growing Old in America". Grace Hechinger, Family Circle Magazine, July 25, 1977.

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