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
saws world notes
I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw
brain attention world
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
world united-states states
The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone
responsibility world phases
Life is in one of its smoother phases ... I've no responsibilities in the world except friends and students and cherishing the life of the world -- and the belief that there is enough love to go round.
world tribes our-family
You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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.
change maturity world
No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
zest world greater
There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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.
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.
zest creative world
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
groups world underestimate
Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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.