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
mother law cities
Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.
men cities groups
A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.
cities weakness wells
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.
cities childhood way
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.
cities canada looks
When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?
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.
civilization evil way
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.
beautiful respect animal
...recognize and respect Earth's beautiful systems of balance, between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in the air, mankind, water, air, and land. Most importantly there must always be awareness of the actions by people that can disturb this precious balance.
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to cooperate
hard mediocre men possible women
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible
drama invention
As Significant as the Invention of Drama or the Novel.
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A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable t
anybody creeps family matter
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps in
avoidance biting half joking natives relationships teeth
The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting lice in half with their teeth