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
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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
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The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on the whole, educated people have more ways to make friends... . In England, for instance, you find everyone in your class has read the same books. Here, people grope for something in common-like a newly engaged girl who came to me and said, "It's absolutely wonderful! His uncle and my cousin were on the same football team.
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Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.