Margaret Mead Quotes - Page 10

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• We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn, and that we may return to stricter regimentation of women.

  Margaret Mead

  Opportunity, Mind, May

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• Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, Long, Training

  BlackberryWinter ch. 14 (1972)

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• It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, Believe, Tasks

  "The spirit of Houston: the First National Women's Conference, Vol. 84". Book by Mim Kelber (p. 153), 1978.

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• Britons put up with, Americans fix, Canadians cope

  Margaret Mead

  Britons

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• ... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing.

  Margaret Mead

  Mirrors, Fishing, Imagination

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

  Margaret Mead

  Law, Society, Contempt

  "Impeachment?". Claire Safran, Redbook, April 1974.

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• I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast. ... In college, in some way that I devoutly believed in but could not explain, I expected to become a person.

  Margaret Mead

  Education, College, Ideas

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• Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Quality, Needs

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Fleur L. Strand "Physiology: A Regulatory Systems Approach" (p. 509), 1978.

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• I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the nature of adolescence itself or to the civilization? Under different conditions does adolescence present a different picture?

  Margaret Mead

  Civilization, Doe, Different

  Margaret Mead (1971). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.

  Margaret Mead

  Heart, Men, Artist

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.

  Margaret Mead

  Roots, America, Typical

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1970). “A way of seeing”

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• I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw

  Margaret Mead

  World, Saws, Notes

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• A society which is clamouring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice.

  Margaret Mead

  Philosophy, Giving, Choices

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• With 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 Mead

  Stress, Next, Mature

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for ceremonial occasions, with a few startling exceptions resist alcohol, because if one drinks one loses one's orientation. Orientation is felt as a protection rather than as a strait jacket and its loss provokes extreme anxiety.

  Margaret Mead

  Strong, Loss, Space

  Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead (1942). “Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis”

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• Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.

  Margaret Mead

  Country, Parent, Young

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• I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.

  Margaret Mead

  Might, Study, Lives Of Others

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• 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 Mead

  Divorce, People, Stills

  "Male and Female". Book by Margaret Mead, 1949.

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• I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.

  Margaret Mead

  Grandparent, Humans, My Own

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• Women have an important contribution to make.

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  Important, Contribution, Important Contributions

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• War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.

  Margaret Mead

  War, Invention

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.182, Berghahn Books

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• Love is the invention of a few high cultures ... it is cultural artifact. To make love the requirement of a lifelong marriage is exceedingly difficult, and only a few people can achieve it. I don't believe in setting universal standards that a large proportion of people can't reach.

  Margaret Mead

  Love, Believe, People

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• From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.

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  Giving, Doe, Culture

  Margaret Mead (2000). “And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America”, p.162, Berghahn Books

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• Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

  Margaret Mead

  Human Nature, Aggressive, Aggression

  Margaret Mead (2000). “And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America”, p.134, Berghahn Books

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• The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone

  Margaret Mead

  United States, World, States

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