Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
MARGARET MEADEveryone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
MARGARET MEADWhere we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
MARGARET MEADNever underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
MARGARET MEADLife in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
MARGARET MEADThere is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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 MEADWe must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
MARGARET MEADThe ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
MARGARET MEADMonogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
MARGARET MEADThroughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
MARGARET MEADIf the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
MARGARET MEADI 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 MEADThere is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
MARGARET MEADWith 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 MEADWe won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
MARGARET MEADContentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
MARGARET MEAD