Margaret Mead Quotes - Page 9

• Por muchas comunas que se inventen, la familia siempre vuelve.

  Margaret Mead

  Family, Women, Matter

  "Future Families". Margaret Mead in "The American People in the Age of Kennedy" edited by David M. Kennedy (p. 108), 1973.

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• The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.

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  Alternatives, Failing, Pessimism

  Margaret Mead (1970). “Culture and Commitment”

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• The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

  Margaret Mead

  Family, Pain, Mind

  Margaret Mead (1972). "Blkberry Winter"

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• Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well as private. But it is men, far more than women, who have been liberated by this change. For now that women use these terms, men no longer need to watch their own language in the presence of women. But is this a gain for women?

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Women, Watches

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• Dancing is the only activity in which almost all ages and both sexes participate.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Dancing, Age

  Margaret Mead (1973). "La mayoría de edad en Samoa"

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• 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?

  Margaret Mead

  Cities, Looks, Canada

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• Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.

  Margaret Mead

  Humble, Emergencies, Napkins

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• Britons put up with, Americans fix, Canadians cope

  Margaret Mead

  Británicos

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• We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn, and that we may return to stricter regimentation of women.

  Margaret Mead

  Opportunity, Mind, May

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• 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.

  Margaret Mead

  Family, Humanity, Tasks

  Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”

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• As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was not so. We know of no people who have succeeded for long in dissolving the family or displacing it.

  Margaret Mead

  Family, Long, People

  Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”

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• ... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing.

  Margaret Mead

  Mirrors, Fishing, Imagination

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.

  Margaret Mead

  Rome, Theory, Creationism

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• Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Quality, Needs

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Fleur L. Strand "Physiology: A Regulatory Systems Approach" (p. 509), 1978.

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• I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast. ... In college, in some way that I devoutly believed in but could not explain, I expected to become a person.

  Margaret Mead

  Education, College, Ideas

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• I am interested in what happens to people who find the whole of life so rewarding that they are able to move through it with the same kind of delight in which a child moves through a game.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Moving, Games

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• The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

  Margaret Mead

  Law, Society, Contempt

  "Impeachment?". Claire Safran, Redbook, April 1974.

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• Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, Roles, Unnecessary

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the nature of adolescence itself or to the civilization? Under different conditions does adolescence present a different picture?

  Margaret Mead

  Civilization, Doe, Different

  Margaret Mead (1971). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.

  Margaret Mead

  Heart, Men, Artist

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.

  Margaret Mead

  Roots, America, Typical

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1970). “A way of seeing”

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• I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw

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  World, Saws, Notes

  Margaret Mead (1972). "Blkberry Winter"

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• A society which is clamouring 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 to bear the conditions of choice.

  Margaret Mead

  Philosophy, Giving, Choices

  Margaret Mead (1973). "La mayoría de edad en Samoa"

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• With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.

  Margaret Mead

  Stress, Next, Mature

  Margaret Mead (1973). "La mayoría de edad en Samoa"

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• I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.

  Margaret Mead

  Divorce, Assuming, Ends

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