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Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured author and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

Tags: Parents, Lost, Him

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.

Tags: Work, Learning, Play

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.

Tags: Religion, Sex, Children

Margaret Mead

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

Tags: Believe, Ever, Caring

Margaret Mead

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Tags: Ever, Small, Thoughtful

Margaret Mead

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Tags: Friendship, Better, Friend

Margaret Mead

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

Tags: Social, Accidents, Fathers

Margaret Mead

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

Tags: Society, Won, Destroy

Margaret Mead

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

Tags: Once, Sister, Within

Margaret Mead

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

Tags: Live, Ever, Before

Margaret Mead

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