Margaret Mead Quotes - Page 9

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• to the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits only a very partial legacy. The more whole the culture, the more whole each member, each man, each woman, each child will be.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Children, Equality

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

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• Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.

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  Nature, Pigs, People

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• Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Towns, Sidewalk

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• American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order of dominance is length of time in the fishbowl. The oldest resident picks on the newest resident, and if the newest resident is removed to a new bowl, he, as oldest resident, will pick on the newcomers.

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  Order, Immigration, Dominance

  Margaret Mead (2000). “And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America”, p.40, Berghahn Books

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• This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill the defective child at birth, to leave the sleeping pills beside the bed of the cancer patient ... It is the duty of society to protect the physicians from such requests.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Cancer, Sleep

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• In each age there is a series of pressing questions which must be asked and answered. On the correctness of the questions depends the survival of those who ask; on the quality of the answers depends the quality of the life those survivors will lead.

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  Survival, Age, Quality

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• Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Father, Women

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• Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

  Margaret Mead

  Life, Jumping, Firsts

  MARGARET MEAD (1959). “PEOPLE AND PLACES”

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• The suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong initiating or patriarchal role that is still demanded of him, or of the female who has been given too much freedom of movement as a child to stay placidly within the house as an adult - this suffering, this discrepancy, this sense of failure in an enjoined role, is the point of leverage for social change.

  Margaret Mead

  Strong, Sex, Children

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• And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.

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  Mother, Sex, Father

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably in individuals within our society is nevertheless due not to original nature but to social environment; and a homogeneous and simple development of the individual may be studied.

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  Simple, May, Our Society

  Margaret Mead (1962). “Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education”

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• In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.

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  Thinking, Quality, Conformist

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• [Among the Arapeh... both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community...] If one comments upon a middle-aged man as good-looking, the people answer: 'Good-looking? Ye-e-e-s? But you should have seen him before he bore all those children'.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies". Book by Margaret Mead, p. 55, 1935.

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• The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

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  Family, Pain, Mind

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.

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  Alternatives, Failing, Pessimism

  Margaret Mead (1970). “Culture and Commitment”

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• And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

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  Baby, Soulmate, Struggle

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• Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well as private. But it is men, far more than women, who have been liberated by this change. For now that women use these terms, men no longer need to watch their own language in the presence of women. But is this a gain for women?

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  Sex, Women, Watches

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• Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.

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  Rome, Theory, Creationism

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• Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.

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  Sight, Walking Sticks, Handbags

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

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• Maleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play.

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  Sex, Games, Play

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• Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.

  Margaret Mead

  Humble, Emergencies, Napkins

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• In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.

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  Grandchildren, Past, Grandparent

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male; it frightens the men, unsexes the women, and muffles and distorts the contribution women could make.

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  Men, Males, Fields

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• I think the important thing about sisters is that they share the same minute, familiar life-style, the same little sets of rules. Therefore they can keep house with each other late in life, because they share the same bunch of housewifely prejudices. The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, Thinking, House

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• When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?

  Margaret Mead

  Cities, Looks, Canada

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