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
love believe people
Love is the invention of a few high cultures ... it is cultural artifact. To make love the requirement of a lifelong marriage is exceedingly difficult, and only a few people can achieve it. I don't believe in setting universal standards that a large proportion of people can't reach.
breathing loving-you lovely
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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.
feels love-someone knows
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
love dance song
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
hate love-is demand
To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
love-is sexuality monogamy
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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.
capacity cooperate ruined
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.
articulate brand chosen economic filled generation gone peace society unable until variety
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