Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead
Margaret Meadwas an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College in New York City and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth16 December 1901
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
grief trying married
When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
earth
We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.
family pain mind
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.
nature carpe-diem society
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
country next-week cities
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.
husband children romantic-love
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.
honesty acceptance evil
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
feels love-someone knows
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
failure journey may
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
religious animal hands
I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?
passion government problem
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
bed care
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
women sisterhood want
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
birthday regret learning
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.