In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present. Margaret Mead More Quotes by Margaret Mead More Quotes From Margaret Mead Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. Margaret Mead wovenhumanitytogether There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman. Margaret Mead greater-powerzestworld Even very recently, the elders could say: 'You know, I have been young and you never have been old.' But today's young people can reply: 'You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be.' ... the older generation will never see repeated in the lives of young people their own unprecedented experience of sequentially emerging change. This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal. Margaret Mead generationspeopleworld Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible. Margaret Mead sisterhoodwomenwant You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel. Margaret Mead love-someoneknowsfeels 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 fogpunishmentfear Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future. Margaret Mead childrenpeoplepast It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. Margaret Mead honestyacceptanceevil An education not founded on Art will never succeed. Margaret Mead succeedart One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it. Margaret Mead welfareanimalchildren It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet. Margaret Mead foodmotivationalinspirational I discovered when I had a child of my own that I had become a biased observer of small children. Instead of looking at them with affectionate but nonpartisan eyes, I saw each of them as older or younger, bigger or smaller, more or less graceful, intelligent, or skilled than my own child. Margaret Mead intelligenteyechildren the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children. Margaret Mead responsibilitychildrenpeople Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. Margaret Mead simpleteachingchildren I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old? Margaret Mead religiousanimalhands We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have. Margaret Mead earth Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers abroad, they are focusing their anxieties on home. The reasons are not far to seek. We are at a turning point in human history. . . . We could turn our attention to the problems that going to the Moon certainly will not solve ... But I think this would be fatal to our future. . . . A society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die. Margaret Mead inspirationallifemoving The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer. Margaret Mead feelingsmenbelieve You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds. Margaret Mead bedcare 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 womenwatchessex
