Margaret Mead Quotes - Page 6

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• I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

  Margaret Mead

  Respect, People, Way

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• No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

  Margaret Mead

  Family, Women, Matter

  "Future Families". Margaret Mead in "The American People in the Age of Kennedy" edited by David M. Kennedy (p. 108), 1973.

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• Dear Math, please grow up and solve your own problems. I'm tired of solving them for you.
  Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

  Margaret Mead

  Witty, Growing Up, Tired

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• The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.

  Margaret Mead

  Funny, Trust, Children

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• We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, Differences, Generations

  Male and Female ch. 1 (1949)

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• The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.

  Margaret Mead

  Teaching, Learning, Teach

  Margaret Mead (1964). “Continuities in Cultural Evolution”, p.44, Transaction Publishers

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• For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build solidly grounded ideas about the moral and political demands of human life. Margaret Mead saw mid-twentieth-century anthropology as engaged in a project no less ambitious than Kant's own, and her Terry Lectures on Continuities in Cultural Evolution provide an excellent point to enter into her reflections.

  Margaret Mead

  Reflection, Ideas, Political

  "Continuities in Cultural Evolution". Book by Margaret Mead, 1964.

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• Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several children. But once the children grow older, sisters draw closer together and often, in old age, they become each other's chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and of their relationship to each other's children, they share memories of the same home, the same homemaking style, and the same small prejudices about housekeeping that carry the echoes of their mother's voice.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

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• Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.

  Margaret Mead

  Breathing, Loving You, Lovely

  Margaret Mead, Margaret Mary Caffrey, Patricia A. Francis (2006). “To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead”, p.105, Basic Books

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• One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

  Margaret Mead

  Believe, America, Characteristics

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• What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.

  Margaret Mead

  Husband, Children, Romantic Love

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

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• I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.

  Margaret Mead

  Thinking, Heterosexuality Is, Heterosexuality

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• I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.

  Margaret Mead

  Marriage, Time, Three

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• The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.

  Margaret Mead

  Cities, Weakness, Wells

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

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• No skill, no special apti­tude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it was of one sex rather than the other. No child would be relentlessly shaped to one pattern of behavior, but instead there should be many patterns, in a world that had learned to allow to each individual the pattern which was most congenial to his gifts.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Children, Thinking

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

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• Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.

  Margaret Mead

  Holy Days, Earth Day, Historical

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• The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.

  Margaret Mead

  Grandmother, People, Grandparent

  Margaret Mead (1992). “To Grandmother with Love: A Special Tribute”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.

  Margaret Mead

  Cutting, Science, Giving

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

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• The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.

  Margaret Mead

  Believe, Men, Feelings

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

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• Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only one. Where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, business man or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts and varying interests.

  Margaret Mead

  Business, Men, Artist

  "Coming of Age in Samoa". Book by Margaret Mead, 1928.

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• The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help average teachers approximate the performance of good teachers.

  Margaret Mead

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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

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• Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

  Margaret Mead

  Peace, Two, Bathroom

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• Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

  Margaret Mead

  Retirement, Retiring, Sooner Or Later

  Interview in Los Angeles on the occasion of her 75th birthday as quoted in "Newsweek", Volume 88 (p. 157), December 1976.

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• Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man

  Margaret Mead

  Loyalty, Laughter, Hate

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

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• I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

  Margaret Mead

  Funny, Hilarious, Peace

  "Quote Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, 1977.

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