The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
MARGARET MEADThe problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
MARGARET MEADA woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
MARGARET MEADI do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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 MEADNo country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
MARGARET MEADThe way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
MARGARET MEADGrandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
MARGARET MEADThroughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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 MEADThe negative cautions of science are never popular.
MARGARET MEADHaving two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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 MEADMy grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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 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 MEADIt may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
MARGARET MEAD