Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. Margaret Mead More Quotes by Margaret Mead More Quotes From Margaret Mead The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground. Margaret Mead creativityartistmen 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. Margaret Mead maturitychangeworld I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be. Margaret Mead mentorparentchildren Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships. Margaret Mead monogamysexualitylove-is 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 differentdoecivilization People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce. Margaret Mead divorcestillspeople Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform. Margaret Mead differencesordersex I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life. Margaret Mead growing-upstressbook Mourning has become unfashionable in the United States. The bereaved are supposed to pull themselves together as quickly as possible and to reweave the torn fabric of life. ... we do not allow ... for the weeks and months during which a loss is realized - a beautiful word that suggests the transmutation of the strange into something that is one's own. Margaret Mead grieflossbeautiful I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature. Margaret Mead heterosexualityheterosexuality-isthinking 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 canadacitieslooks Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties. Margaret Mead second-chancegrandparentanxiety Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young. Margaret Mead parentyoungcountry In each age there is a series of pressing questions which must be asked and answered. On the correctness of the questions depends the survival of those who ask; on the quality of the answers depends the quality of the life those survivors will lead. Margaret Mead qualitysurvivalage Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. Margaret Mead retiringsooner-or-laterretirement The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded. Margaret Mead childhoodadultscities I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw Margaret Mead notessawsworld Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made a career, to the effect that the ultimate value of studying other cultures was the use we could make of them to reconstruct our own - a heady kind of intellectual imperialism, as if the final meaning of others' lives was their significance for us. Margaret Mead other-culturescareersblue Margaret Mead was both a student of civilization and an exemplar of it. To a public of millions, she brought the central insight of cultural anthropology: that varying cultural patterns express an underlying human unity. She mastered her discipline, but she also transcended it. Intrepid, independent, plain spoken, fearless, she remains a model for the young and a teacher from whom all may learn. Margaret Mead independentteachercivilization Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach. Margaret Mead who-caressickchildren
