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• there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

  Margaret Mead

  Generations, Young, Elders

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• Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers abroad, they are focusing their anxieties on home. The reasons are not far to seek. We are at a turning point in human history. . . . We could turn our attention to the problems that going to the Moon certainly will not solve ... But I think this would be fatal to our future. . . . A society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Moving

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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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• [Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, Males, Prestige

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

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• The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.

  Margaret Mead

  Cities, Childhood, Adults

  MARGARET MEAD (1930). “GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA”

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• If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.

  Margaret Mead

  Water, Would Be, Lasts

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• In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a way of life is implicit in all human culture as we know it. But the separation of the teacher's role from the role of all adults who inducted the young into the habitual behavior of the group, was a comparatively late invention. Furthermore, when we do find explicit and defined teaching, in primitive societies we find it tied in with a sense of the rareness or the precariousness of some human tradition.

  Margaret Mead

  Teacher, Teaching, Adults

  "An Anthropologist Looks at the Teacher's Role". Educational Method, Vol 21, p. 219-223, 1942.

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• Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

  Margaret Mead

  Grandmother, Hands, Voice

  Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”

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• What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.

  Margaret Mead

  Acceptance, Justice, Awareness

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• Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.

  Margaret Mead

  Contentment, Pay, Can Not

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• There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.

  Margaret Mead

  Zest, Creative, World

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• the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Responsibility, People

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• Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males of the same species. There seems very little ground for claiming that the mother of young children is more peaceful, more responsible, and more thoughtful for the welfare of the human race than is her husband or brother.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Brother, Husband

  Male and Female introduction (1955 edition)

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• It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

  Margaret Mead

  Honesty, Acceptance, Evil

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

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• Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

  Margaret Mead

  Jealousy, Insecurity, Depth

  Margaret Mead, William O. Beeman (2004). “Studying Contemporary Western Society: Method and Theory”, p.293, Berghahn Books

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• We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.

  Margaret Mead

  Thinking, People, Political

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1980). “Aspects of the Present”, William Morrow

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• One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Animal, Welfare

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• It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Motivational, Food

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• Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.

  Margaret Mead

  Spring, Lying, Winter

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• ‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.

  Margaret Mead

  Grief, Trying, Married

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• Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Educational, Learning

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• Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and time belts, and yet brings people all over the world into one resonating accord, is devoted to the preservation of the harmony in nature and yet draws upon the triumphs of technology, the measurement of time, and instantaneous communication through space.

  Margaret Mead

  Integrity, Ocean, Communication

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• If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding way, they are penalized as being conspicuously better than the peer group. The culture tries to make the child with a gift into a one-sided person, to penalize him at every turn, to cause him trouble in making friends and to create conditions conducive to the development of a neurosis. Neither teachers, the parents of other children, nor the child peers will tolerate a Wunderkind.

  Margaret Mead

  Motivational, Teacher, Children

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• People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

  Margaret Mead

  Dream, Fashion, Ambition

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• Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Law, Cities

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Caroline Adams Miller "Bright Words for Dark Days: Meditations for Women Who Get the Blues" (p. 10), 1994.

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