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 MEADLife in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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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.
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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.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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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.
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Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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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.
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The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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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.
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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