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.
MARGARET MEADPeople 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.
MARGARET MEADThe solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
MARGARET MEADParents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
MARGARET MEADNever depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
MARGARET MEAD[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
MARGARET MEADIn almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
MARGARET MEADEven though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
MARGARET MEADThe atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
MARGARET MEADWe won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
MARGARET MEADIt may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
MARGARET MEADIf a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
MARGARET MEADThe 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.
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 MEADThe negative cautions of science are never popular.
MARGARET MEADWe end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
MARGARET MEADI have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
MARGARET MEAD