Margaret Mead Quotes - Page 5

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• There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.

  Margaret Mead

  Zest, Creative, World

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

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Animal, Welfare

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• Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males of the same species. There seems very little ground for claiming that the mother of young children is more peaceful, more responsible, and more thoughtful for the welfare of the human race than is her husband or brother.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Brother, Husband

  Male and Female introduction (1955 edition)

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• No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

  Margaret Mead

  Family, Women, Matter

  "Future Families". Margaret Mead in "The American People in the Age of Kennedy" edited by David M. Kennedy (p. 108), 1973.

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• What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.

  Margaret Mead

  Acceptance, Justice, Awareness

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• We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, Differences, Generations

  Male and Female ch. 1 (1949)

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

  Margaret Mead

  Contentment, Pay, Can Not

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• No skill, no special apti­tude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it was of one sex rather than the other. No child would be relentlessly shaped to one pattern of behavior, but instead there should be many patterns, in a world that had learned to allow to each individual the pattern which was most congenial to his gifts.

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  Sex, Children, Thinking

  "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies". Book by Margaret Mead, 1935.

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• Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.

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  Spring, Lying, Winter

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• 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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• Dear Math, please grow up and solve your own problems. I'm tired of solving them for you.
  Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

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  Witty, Growing Up, Tired

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• One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

  Margaret Mead

  Believe, America, Characteristics

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• I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?

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  Religious, Animal, Hands

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• 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.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Law, Cities

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Caroline Adams Miller "Bright Words for Dark Days: Meditations for Women Who Get the Blues" (p. 10), 1994.

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• Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.

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  Children, Educational, Learning

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• 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

  Respect, People, Way

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• If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding way, they are penalized as being conspicuously better than the peer group. The culture tries to make the child with a gift into a one-sided person, to penalize him at every turn, to cause him trouble in making friends and to create conditions conducive to the development of a neurosis. Neither teachers, the parents of other children, nor the child peers will tolerate a Wunderkind.

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  Motivational, Teacher, Children

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• I discovered when I had a child of my own that I had become a biased observer of small children. Instead of looking at them with affectionate but nonpartisan eyes, I saw each of them as older or younger, bigger or smaller, more or less graceful, intelligent, or skilled than my own child.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Eye, Intelligent

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• Between friends there is no bribery. ... the relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.

  Margaret Mead

  Friends, Beautiful, Clever

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

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  Teaching, Learning, Teach

  Margaret Mead (1964). “Continuities in Cultural Evolution”, p.44, Transaction Publishers

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

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  Time, Women, Bad Ass

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in "La Abogada" newsletter, Volume 3, by International Federation of Women Lawyers (p. 5), 1967.

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• Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

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  Jealousy, Insecurity, Depth

  Margaret Mead, William O. Beeman (2004). “Studying Contemporary Western Society: Method and Theory”, p.293, Berghahn Books

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• The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.

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  Funny, Trust, Children

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• It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Food

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• ‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.

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  Grief, Trying, Married

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