Margaret Mead Quotes - Page 6

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• Anthropology... has always been highly dependent upon photography... As the use of still photography - and moving pictures - has become increasingly essential as a part of anthropological methods, the need for photographers with a disciplined knowledge of anthropology and for anthropologists with training in photography has increased. We expect that in the near future sophisticated training in photography will be a requirement for all anthropologists. (1962)

  Margaret Mead

  Photography, Moving, Training

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• Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.

  Margaret Mead

  Breathing, Loving You, Lovely

  Margaret Mead, Margaret Mary Caffrey, Patricia A. Francis (2006). “To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead”, p.105, Basic Books

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

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  Marriage, Time, Three

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• Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several children. But once the children grow older, sisters draw closer together and often, in old age, they become each other's chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and of their relationship to each other's children, they share memories of the same home, the same homemaking style, and the same small prejudices about housekeeping that carry the echoes of their mother's voice.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

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• The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.

  Margaret Mead

  Cities, Weakness, Wells

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Twentieth century faith: hope and survival”

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• 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.

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  Cutting, Science, Giving

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

  Margaret Mead

  Honesty, Acceptance, Evil

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.

  Margaret Mead

  Believe, Men, Feelings

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help average teachers approximate the performance of good teachers.

  Margaret Mead

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

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  Retirement, Retiring, Sooner Or Later

  Interview in Los Angeles on the occasion of her 75th birthday as quoted in "Newsweek", Volume 88 (p. 157), December 1976.

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• I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.

  Margaret Mead

  Thinking, Heterosexuality Is, Heterosexuality

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• For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build solidly grounded ideas about the moral and political demands of human life. Margaret Mead saw mid-twentieth-century anthropology as engaged in a project no less ambitious than Kant's own, and her Terry Lectures on Continuities in Cultural Evolution provide an excellent point to enter into her reflections.

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  Reflection, Ideas, Political

  "Continuities in Cultural Evolution". Book by Margaret Mead, 1964.

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• Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.

  Margaret Mead

  Holy Days, Earth Day, Historical

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• What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.

  Margaret Mead

  Husband, Children, Romantic Love

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

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  Peace, Two, Bathroom

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• The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior... we shall not really succeed in discarding the straitjacket of our cultural beliefs about sexual choice if we fail to come to terms with the well-documented, normal human capacity to love members of both sexes.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Thinking, Capacity To Love

  Redbook Magazine, 1975.

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• Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man

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  Loyalty, Laughter, Hate

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

  Margaret Mead

  Country, Next Week, Cities

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Elaine Partnow "The New Quotable Woman: From Eve To the Present Day" (p. 331), 1993.

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• Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only one. Where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, business man 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.

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  Business, Men, Artist

  "Coming of Age in Samoa". Book by Margaret Mead, 1928.

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• I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

  Margaret Mead

  Funny, Hilarious, Peace

  "Quote Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, 1977.

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

  Margaret Mead

  Men

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• The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.

  Margaret Mead

  Grandmother, People, Grandparent

  Margaret Mead (1992). “To Grandmother with Love: A Special Tribute”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• Mourning has become unfashionable in the United States. The bereaved are supposed to pull themselves together as quickly as possible and to reweave the torn fabric of life. ... we do not allow ... for the weeks and months during which a loss is realized - a beautiful word that suggests the transmutation of the strange into something that is one's own.

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  Beautiful, Grief, Loss

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1970). “A way of seeing”

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• The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.

  Margaret Mead

  Keys, Atmosphere, Interdependence

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• 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

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