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• Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.

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  Second Chance, Grandparent, Anxiety

  Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”

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• As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

  Margaret Mead

  Travel, Home, Memorable

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

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• The negative cautions of science are never popular.

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  Negative, Caution

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

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• Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

  Margaret Mead

  Relationship, Family, Sister

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Ellyn Sanna "Sisters by Birth Friends by Choice: All the Things I Love About You", June 2003.

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• If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.

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  Lying, Men, Air

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• Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, Males, Female

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• An education not founded on Art will never succeed.

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  Art, Succeed

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• [In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.

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  Long Ago, Movement, Body

  Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead (1942). “Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis”

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• If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

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  Taken, Thinking, Government

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• I had my father's mind, but he had his mother's mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.

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  Mother, Sex, Father

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

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• We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.

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  Space, Together, Attention

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• As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was not so. We know of no people who have succeeded for long in dissolving the family or displacing it.

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  Family, Long, People

  Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”

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• Dancing is the only activity in which almost all ages and both sexes participate.

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  Sex, Dancing, Age

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

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• the task of each family is also the task of all humanity. This is to cherish the living, remember those who have gone before, and prepare for those who are not yet born.

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  Family, Humanity, Tasks

  Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”

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• I am interested in what happens to people who find the whole of life so rewarding that they are able to move through it with the same kind of delight in which a child moves through a game.

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  Children, Moving, Games

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• Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.

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  Men, Roles, Unnecessary

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

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• Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

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  Leisure, Capacity, Cultivation

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

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• In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.

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  Family, Thinking, Feelings

  Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”

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• I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.

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  Divorce, Assuming, Ends

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• For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

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  Media, History, Being Sad

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

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  Air, Way, Metamorphosis

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• We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties.

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  Progress, Twenties, Wells

  "Margaret Mead: A Life". Book by Jane Howard, 1984.

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• Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

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  War, Warfare, Invention

  "Warfare Is Only an Invention - Not a Biological Necessity" (1940)

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• Both men and women are conceived as merely capable of response to a situation that their society has already defined for them as sexual, and so the Arapesh feel that it is necessary to chaperon betrothed couples who are too young... with their definition of sex as a response to an external situation rather than as spontaneous desire, both men and women are regarded as helpless in the face of seduction. Parents warn their sons even more than they warn their daughters against permitting themselves to get into situations in which someone can make love to them.

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  Daughter, Sex, Couple

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

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• Just as the difference in height between males is no longer a realistic issue, now that lawsuits have been substituted for hand-to-hand encounters, so the difference in strength between men and women is no longer worth elaboration in cultural institutions.

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  Men, Hands, Differences

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

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