Margaret Mead Quotes - Page 8

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• Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

  Margaret Mead

  Relationship, Family, Sister

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Ellyn Sanna "Sisters by Birth Friends by Choice: All the Things I Love About You", June 2003.

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• Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, Males, Female

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• Wonder is very important, because if we never wondered, we would never get to the point of asking questions. Yet wonder may lead people to write poetry or to paint pictures or to pray, as well as to ask the kinds of questions about the world and themselves that can be answered by science.

  Margaret Mead

  Writing, Asking Questions, People

  MARGARET MEAD (1959). “PEOPLE AND PLACES”

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• An education not founded on Art will never succeed.

  Margaret Mead

  Art, Succeed

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• If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

  Margaret Mead

  Taken, Thinking, Government

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• And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

  Margaret Mead

  Baby, Soulmate, Struggle

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• [In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.

  Margaret Mead

  Long Ago, Movement, Body

  Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead (1942). “Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis”

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• I had my father's mind, but he had his mother's mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Sex, Father

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

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• Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and time belts, and yet brings people all over the world into one resonating accord, is devoted to the preservation of the harmony in nature and yet draws upon the triumphs of technology, the measurement of time, and instantaneous communication through space.

  Margaret Mead

  Integrity, Ocean, Communication

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• Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

  Margaret Mead

  Leisure, Capacity, Cultivation

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

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• We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.

  Margaret Mead

  Space, Together, Attention

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• In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.

  Margaret Mead

  Family, Thinking, Feelings

  Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”

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• I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.

  Margaret Mead

  Divorce, Assuming, Ends

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• I devoutly believe that there is no difficulty between two people for which both are not responsible.

  Margaret Mead

  Believe, Responsibility, Two

  Margaret Mead, Margaret Mary Caffrey, Patricia A. Francis (2006). “To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead”, p.191, Basic Books

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• The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

  Margaret Mead

  Air, Way, Metamorphosis

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• We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties.

  Margaret Mead

  Progress, Twenties, Wells

  "Margaret Mead: A Life". Book by Jane Howard, 1984.

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• Both men and women are conceived as merely capable of response to a situation that their society has already defined for them as sexual, and so the Arapesh feel that it is necessary to chaperon betrothed couples who are too young... with their definition of sex as a response to an external situation rather than as spontaneous desire, both men and women are regarded as helpless in the face of seduction. Parents warn their sons even more than they warn their daughters against permitting themselves to get into situations in which someone can make love to them.

  Margaret Mead

  Daughter, Sex, Couple

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

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• Just as the difference in height between males is no longer a realistic issue, now that lawsuits have been substituted for hand-to-hand encounters, so the difference in strength between men and women is no longer worth elaboration in cultural institutions.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, Hands, Differences

  Margaret Mead (1963). “Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies”

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• to the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits only a very partial legacy. The more whole the culture, the more whole each member, each man, each woman, each child will be.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Children, Equality

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.

  Margaret Mead

  Nature, Pigs, People

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• Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Towns, Sidewalk

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• In each age there is a series of pressing questions which must be asked and answered. On the correctness of the questions depends the survival of those who ask; on the quality of the answers depends the quality of the life those survivors will lead.

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  Survival, Age, Quality

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• 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

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• Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Father, Women

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• Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

  Margaret Mead

  Life, Jumping, Firsts

  MARGARET MEAD (1959). “PEOPLE AND PLACES”

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