Margaret Mead

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightf…

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

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.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.