Margaret Mead's Quotes

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

Margaret Mead

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

Margaret Mead

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 delightful.

Margaret Mead

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

Margaret Mead

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.

Margaret Mead

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

Margaret Mead

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

Margaret Mead

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

Margaret Mead

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

Margaret Mead

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.

Margaret Mead

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Margaret Mead

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

Margaret Mead

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

Margaret Mead