The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature. Margaret Mead More Quotes by Margaret Mead More Quotes From Margaret Mead There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves Margaret Mead recognizing insight children The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist-this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul-a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know. Margaret Mead country art school Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him. Margaret Mead husband baby children Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate. Margaret Mead bathroom peace two The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind. Margaret Mead family pain mind Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and time belts, and yet brings people all over the world into one resonating accord, is devoted to the preservation of the harmony in nature and yet draws upon the triumphs of technology, the measurement of time, and instantaneous communication through space. Margaret Mead communication ocean integrity A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. Margaret Mead cities country next-week I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. Margaret Mead hilarious peace funny I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had. Margaret Mead growing-up wisdom wise Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals. Margaret Mead passion government problem Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. Margaret Mead change kindness inspirational The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers. Margaret Mead trust funny children And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own. Margaret Mead soulmate struggle baby We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together. Margaret Mead space together attention 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 learning regret birthday Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. Margaret Mead sister family relationship there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing. Margaret Mead elders generations young I had my father's mind, but he had his mother's mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked. Margaret Mead mother father sex Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several children. But once the children grow older, sisters draw closer together and often, in old age, they become each other's chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and of their relationship to each other's children, they share memories of the same home, the same homemaking style, and the same small prejudices about housekeeping that carry the echoes of their mother's voice. Margaret Mead growing-up mother children Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity. Margaret Mead insecurity jealousy depth
