Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
MARGARET MEADInstead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
MARGARET MEADNo one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
MARGARET MEADAn education not founded on Art will never succeed.
MARGARET MEADOf 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 MEADOne of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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 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 MEADI have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
MARGARET MEADI was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
MARGARET MEAD[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
MARGARET MEADHuman nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
MARGARET MEADContentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
MARGARET MEADThere is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
MARGARET MEADIt is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
MARGARET MEADThe 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 MEADWe – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
MARGARET MEAD