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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

Margaret Mead

In 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 MEAD

Better Goodness Society Thinking
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
MARGARET MEAD

Beyond Children Development Life Style Live Ourselves People Resource
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
MARGARET MEAD

Competition Relationship Sister Strong
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
MARGARET MEAD

Anonymous Carry Strength Weakness
Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
MARGARET MEAD

Invention Old System War
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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Determination Environmental Finding Hands Man Problem Way
[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
MARGARET MEAD

Activity Attachment Man Prestige Value
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
MARGARET MEAD

Discover Philosophy Water
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
MARGARET MEAD

Believe End Feed Reward Society Violence
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
MARGARET MEAD

Caution Negative Popular Science
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
MARGARET MEAD

Choice Female History Male
One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
MARGARET MEAD

Believe Character Fix Tolerance Wrong
Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
MARGARET MEAD

Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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Afford Class Gift Human National Need Neglect Origin Race Sex
Of 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 MEAD

Children Future Imagination Listening Need Reality Willing Work

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