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
sex games play
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.
might study lives-of-others
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.
mother brother children
Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males of the same species. There seems very little ground for claiming that the mother of young children is more peaceful, more responsible, and more thoughtful for the welfare of the human race than is her husband or brother.
world tribes our-family
You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
home back-again again-and-again
Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
war age world
All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.
lying men air
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
lying men humanity
Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
country parent young
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
forever lasts said
It used to be when we said, ''til death do us part,' death parted us pretty soon. That's why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
rome theory creationism
Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.
manners
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly ...
family humanity gone
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.
men hands differences
Just as the difference in height between males is no longer a realistic issue, now that lawsuits have been substituted for hand-to-hand encounters, so the difference in strength between men and women is no longer worth elaboration in cultural institutions.