Margaret Mead Quotes - Page 4

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• It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for.

  Margaret Mead

  Moon, Environmental, Earth

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• The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.

  Margaret Mead

  Winning, Men, Effort

  Margaret Mead (2000). “And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America”, p.125, Berghahn Books

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• Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of war, or what we have now, which is the psychological equivalent of war, does the nuclear family prevail, because it's the most mobile unit that can ensure the survival of the species. But for the full flowering of the human spirit we need groups, tribes.

  Margaret Mead

  Change, War, Ninety Nine

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• In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Growing Up, Life Changing

  MARGARET MEAD (1959). “PEOPLE AND PLACES”

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• We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.

  Margaret Mead

  Country, Religious, Freedom

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

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• Every act of motherhood contains a dual intent, as the mother holds the child close and prepares it to move way from her, as she supports the child and stands it firmly on its own feet, and as she guards it against danger and sends it out across the yard, down by the stream, and across the traffic-crowded highway. Unless a mother can do both - gather her child close and turn her child out toward the world - she will fail in her purpose.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Children, Moving

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• 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, Heart, Reality

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• Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

  Margaret Mead

  Education, Learning, Men

  "Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap". Book by Margaret Mead, 1970.

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• The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

  Margaret Mead

  Air, Way, Metamorphosis

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• There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.

  Margaret Mead

  Spouse, Communicate, Persons

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• Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

  Margaret Mead

  Groups, Poverty, Discrimination

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Twentieth century faith: hope and survival”

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• human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.

  Margaret Mead

  Suffering, Identity, Culture

  Margaret Mead (1970). “Culture and Commitment”

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• I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?

  Margaret Mead

  Religious, Animal, Hands

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• You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like.

  Margaret Mead

  Smell

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• I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

  Margaret Mead

  Truth, Believe, Add

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 9 Aug. 1964

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• I discovered when I had a child of my own that I had become a biased observer of small children. Instead of looking at them with affectionate but nonpartisan eyes, I saw each of them as older or younger, bigger or smaller, more or less graceful, intelligent, or skilled than my own child.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Eye, Intelligent

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• We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Masculine And Feminine, Personality

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

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• We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.

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  Growing Up, Questioning, Grows

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• There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children... with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.

  Margaret Mead

  Girl, Children, Caring

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• Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.

  Margaret Mead

  Failure, Journey, Goes On

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• I devoutly believe that there is no difficulty between two people for which both are not responsible.

  Margaret Mead

  Believe, Responsibility, Two

  Margaret Mead, Margaret Mary Caffrey, Patricia A. Francis (2006). “To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead”, p.191, Basic Books

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• Between friends there is no bribery. ... the relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.

  Margaret Mead

  Friends, Beautiful, Clever

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• Anthropology... has always been highly dependent upon photography... As the use of still photography - and moving pictures - has become increasingly essential as a part of anthropological methods, the need for photographers with a disciplined knowledge of anthropology and for anthropologists with training in photography has increased. We expect that in the near future sophisticated training in photography will be a requirement for all anthropologists. (1962)

  Margaret Mead

  Photography, Moving, Training

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• We must have...a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Adults, Groups

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• today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Growing Up, War

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

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