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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everybody else.
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read, it merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.
Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
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.
The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.
Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, Go to sleep by yourselves. And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.
The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality or give up the battle in despair.
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
Never doubt a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
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Margaret Mead quotes about life
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
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Margaret Mead quotes about children
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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
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Margaret Mead quotes about people
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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What are the best change quotations by Margaret Mead?
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
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When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.
Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.
Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation.
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
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.
Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.
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?
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.
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?
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
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.
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
Women want medicore men. and men are working hard to become as medicore as possible.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.
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When Margaret Mead was born? Margaret Mead was born on October 16.
Who is Margaret Mead? Margaret Mead biography. Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the '60s and '70s as a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and western life but also a respected, if controversial, academic anthropologist.Her reports as to the purportedly healthy attitude towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures amply informed the '60s "sexual revolution" and it was only at the end of her life and career that her propositions were – albeit controversially – challenged by a maverick fellow anthropologist and literate members of societies she had long before studied and reported on. Mead was a champion of broadened sexual mores within a context of traditional western religious life.Excerpted from Wikipedia.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part 1
Introduction
Part 2
Best Margaret Mead quotes
Top 10 quotes by Margaret Mead
Part 3
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Part 4
Life
Children
World
People
Change
All quotes
Part 5
Similar Scientists
Part 6
Favorite topics
Part 7
Conclusion