Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
MARGARET MEADParents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
MARGARET MEADBlackberry 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.
MARGARET MEADOne of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
MARGARET MEADYoung people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
MARGARET MEADThere is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
MARGARET MEADWe 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.
MARGARET MEADThe solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
MARGARET MEADEveryone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
MARGARET MEADThe atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
MARGARET MEADNever ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
MARGARET MEADThe pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
MARGARET MEADin all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
MARGARET MEADIf 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 MEADWe must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
MARGARET MEADNo society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
MARGARET MEADNo matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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