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
thinking heterosexuality-is heterosexuality
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
believe responsibility two
I devoutly believe that there is no difficulty between two people for which both are not responsible.
zest world greater
There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
human-nature aggressive aggression
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
truth believe world
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
winning men effort
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
passionate revolution problem
Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.
women males female
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
writing asking-questions people
Wonder is very important, because if we never wondered, we would never get to the point of asking questions. Yet wonder may lead people to write poetry or to paint pictures or to pray, as well as to ask the kinds of questions about the world and themselves that can be answered by science.
people generations world
Even very recently, the elders could say: 'You know, I have been young and you never have been old.' But today's young people can reply: 'You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be.' ... the older generation will never see repeated in the lives of young people their own unprecedented experience of sequentially emerging change. This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal.
relationship family sister
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
zest creative world
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
children responsibility people
the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children.
bed care
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.