Margaret Mead Quotes - Page 12

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• To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

  Margaret Mead

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

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• The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Differences, Two

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

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• 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, Cake, Being A Mother

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• Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.

  Margaret Mead

  Views, Vision, Culture

  Margaret Mead, Paul Byers (1968). “The small conference: An innovation in communication”, p.6, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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• An occupation that has no basis in sex-determined gifts can now recruit its ranks from twice as many potential artists.

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  Sex, Artist, Equality

  Margaret Mead (1963). “Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies”

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• You "have a date," you "go out with a date," you "groan because there isn't a decent date in town." A situation defined as containing a girl - or boy - of the right social background, the right degree of popularity, a little higher than your own.

  Margaret Mead

  Girl, Boys, Men

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

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• The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, House, Important

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• Life is in one of its smoother phases ... I've no responsibilities in the world except friends and students and cherishing the life of the world -- and the belief that there is enough love to go round.

  Margaret Mead

  Responsibility, World, Phases

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• the experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table, is an inescapable, delightful and repelling, desired and abhorred part of each child's life.

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  Brother, Children, Sleep

  Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”

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• Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.

  Margaret Mead

  Cynicism, Sentimentality

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• What are the determinative factors in the early training of the child which assures that it will be placid and contented, unaggressive and non-initiatory, non-competitive and responsive, warm, docile, and trusting?

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  Sex, Culture, Docile

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

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• As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

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  Birthday, Teacher, Long Distance

  Margaret Mead (1970). “Culture and Commitment”

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• For art to be reality, the whole sensuous being must be caught up in the experience.

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  Art, Reality, Caught

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• If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Believe, Character

  "And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America". Book by Margaret Mead, 1942.

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• The semimetaphysical problems of the individual and society, of egoism and altruism, of freedom and determinism, either disappear or remain in the form of different phases in the organization of a consciousness that is fundamentally social.

  Margaret Mead

  Organization, Different, Phases

  "Social Cognitive Psychology: History and Current Domains" by David F. Barone, James E. Maddux, Charles R. Snyder, (p. 20), 1997.

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• Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, Palaces, Slave

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• I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.

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  Growing Up, Stress, Book

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• Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Sick, Who Cares

  Margaret Mead (1964). “Continuities in Cultural Evolution”, p.321, Transaction Publishers

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• The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable ideal but a necessary condition of continued human existence. But to take even this step we must return to a calm and responsible frame of mind in which we can face the long patient tasks ahead.

  Margaret Mead

  Law, Long, Mind

  "Are Shelters the Answer?". The New York Times Magazine (p. 125), November 26, 1961.

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