Margaret Mead Quotes - Page 11

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• EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.

  Margaret Mead

  People, Safety, Earth Day

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• It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.

  Margaret Mead

  Class, Discipline, Mind

  "Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education" by Margaret Mead, (p. 406), 1930.

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• I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman.

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  Doubt, Brain, Reason

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Parent, Mentor

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• A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

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  Men, Cities, Groups

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions.

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  Civilization, Ideas, Groups

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

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• Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Men, Envy

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

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• Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation.

  Margaret Mead

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

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

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• The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the father from temptation is a necessary condition of his continued social adjustment. The protections that are built up in the child against desire for the parent become the essential counterpart to the attitudes in the parent that protect the child.

  Margaret Mead

  Girl, Children, Attitude

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

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• Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-heartedattempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Writing, Self

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• All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.

  Margaret Mead

  War, Age, Different

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• Learned behaviors have replaced the biologically given ones.

  Margaret Mead

  Behavior, Given, Learned Behavior

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

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• Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent war from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. That is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce.

  Margaret Mead

  Real, War, Fighting

  "Remarks about the Military Draft" by Margaret Mead (June 1968) as quoted in "Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views" edited by Rhoda Metraux (pp. 35-36), 1979.

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• The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on the whole, educated people have more ways to make friends... . In England, for instance, you find everyone in your class has read the same books. Here, people grope for something in common-like a newly engaged girl who came to me and said, "It's absolutely wonderful! His uncle and my cousin were on the same football team.

  Margaret Mead

  Friendship, Girl, Football

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• most people prefer to carry out the kinds of experiments that allow the scientist to feel that he is in full control of the situation rather than surrendering himself to the situation, as one must in studying human beings as they actually live.

  Margaret Mead

  Science, People, Study

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.

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  Sex, Order, Differences

  "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies". Book by Margaret Mead, p. 48, 1935.

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• Margaret Mead was both a student of civilization and an exemplar of it. To a public of millions, she brought the central insight of cultural anthropology: that varying cultural patterns express an underlying human unity. She mastered her discipline, but she also transcended it. Intrepid, independent, plain spoken, fearless, she remains a model for the young and a teacher from whom all may learn.

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  Teacher, Independent, Civilization

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• The mind is not sex-typed.

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  Sex, Justice, Mind

  Blackberry Winter ch. 5 (1972)

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• In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.

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  Country, People, Growing

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• Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made a career, to the effect that the ultimate value of studying other cultures was the use we could make of them to reconstruct our own - a heady kind of intellectual imperialism, as if the final meaning of others' lives was their significance for us.

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  Blue, Other Cultures, Careers

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• The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep. The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep.

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  Running, Children, Fall

  "Balinese Character". Book by Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, 1942.

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• If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.

  Margaret Mead

  Sports, Nfl, Toys

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• Never underestimate that a small group of people can hold up a liquor license. Sometimes, it's the only thing that can.

  Margaret Mead

  People, Groups, Underestimate

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• The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality.

  Margaret Mead

  Dream, Fighting, Views

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

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• Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill, however slightly, he is likely to try out not just one more, but a whole ensemble.

  Margaret Mead

  Sports, Swimming, Fishing

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