Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
MARGARET MEADLoving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
MARGARET MEADManners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
MARGARET MEADThe time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
MARGARET MEADI learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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 MEADSomehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
MARGARET MEADWe won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
MARGARET MEADThere is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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 MEADEvery time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
MARGARET MEADThrough a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
MARGARET MEADPrayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
MARGARET MEADIt is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
MARGARET MEADOne of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
MARGARET MEADYou can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
MARGARET MEADIt used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
MARGARET MEAD