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Margaret Mead Quotes

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The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach  (Margaret Mead Quotes) People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce  (Margaret Mead Quotes) Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform  (Margaret Mead Quotes) A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know  (Margaret Mead Quotes) 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 Quotes) Never underestimate that a small group of people can hold up a liquor license. Sometimes, it’s the only thing that can  (Margaret Mead Quotes) 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  (Margaret Mead Quotes) No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity  (Margaret Mead Quotes) 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 Quotes) Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight  (Margaret Mead Quotes) Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived  (Margaret Mead Quotes) I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast.... In college, in some way that I devoutly believed in but could not explain, I expected to become a person  (Margaret Mead Quotes) 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  (Margaret Mead Quotes) 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  (Margaret Mead Quotes) 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  (Margaret Mead Quotes) Between friends there is no bribery.... the relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other  (Margaret Mead Quotes) Our human situation no longer permits us to make armed dichotomies between those who are good and those who are evil, those who are right and those who are wrong. The first blow dealt to the enemy’s children will sign the death warrant of our own  (Margaret Mead Quotes) I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being  (Margaret Mead Quotes) Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning  (Margaret Mead Quotes) Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties  (Margaret Mead Quotes) To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse  (Margaret Mead Quotes) We came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life  (Margaret Mead Quotes) Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes  (Margaret Mead Quotes) Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself  (Margaret Mead Quotes) Most people prefer to carry out the kinds of experiments that allow the scientist to feel that he is in full control of the situation rather than surrendering himself to the situation, as one must in studying human beings as they actually live  (Margaret Mead Quotes) 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  (Margaret Mead Quotes) The experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table, is an inescapable, delightful and repelling, desired and abhorred part of each child’s life  (Margaret Mead Quotes) Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency  (Margaret Mead Quotes) The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so  (Margaret Mead Quotes) We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn, and that we may return to stricter regimentation of women  (Margaret Mead Quotes)
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