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The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams (Margaret Mead Quotes)
It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male; it frightens the men, unsexes the women, and muffles and distorts the contribution women could make (Margaret Mead 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 If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing (Margaret Mead Quotes)
Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan (Margaret Mead Quotes)
I am interested in what happens to people who find the whole of life so rewarding that they are able to move through it with the same kind of delight in which a child moves through a game (Margaret Mead Quotes)
A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture (Margaret Mead Quotes)
Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work (Margaret Mead Quotes)
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands (Margaret Mead Quotes)
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate (Margaret Mead Quotes)
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded (Margaret Mead Quotes)
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run (Margaret Mead Quotes)
Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men (Margaret Mead Quotes)
The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature (Margaret Mead Quotes)
The semimetaphysical problems of the individual and society, of egoism and altruism, of freedom and determinism, either disappear or remain in the form of different phases in the organization of a consciousness that is fundamentally social (Margaret Mead Quotes)
With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities (Margaret Mead Quotes)
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 Quotes)
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost (Margaret Mead Quotes)
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders (Margaret Mead Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings (Margaret Mead Quotes)
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age (Margaret Mead Quotes)
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have (Margaret Mead Quotes)
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has (Margaret Mead 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 it in an impossible situation (Margaret Mead Quotes)
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night (Margaret Mead Quotes)
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance (Margaret Mead Quotes)
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel (Margaret Mead Quotes)
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own (Margaret Mead Quotes)
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world (Margaret Mead Quotes)
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had (Margaret Mead Quotes)