The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality. Margaret Mead More Quotes by Margaret Mead More Quotes From Margaret Mead Every act of motherhood contains a dual intent, as the mother holds the child close and prepares it to move way from her, as she supports the child and stands it firmly on its own feet, and as she guards it against danger and sends it out across the yard, down by the stream, and across the traffic-crowded highway. Unless a mother can do both - gather her child close and turn her child out toward the world - she will fail in her purpose. Margaret Mead mother children moving The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather. Margaret Mead grandparent grandmother people American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order of dominance is length of time in the fishbowl. The oldest resident picks on the newest resident, and if the newest resident is removed to a new bowl, he, as oldest resident, will pick on the newcomers. Margaret Mead dominance immigration order The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. Margaret Mead contempt society law In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present. Margaret Mead grandparent grandchildren past The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over. Margaret Mead metamorphosis air way Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them. Margaret Mead men Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children. Margaret Mead quality children needs I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed. Margaret Mead divorce assuming ends the experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table, is an inescapable, delightful and repelling, desired and abhorred part of each child's life. Margaret Mead brother sleep children The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the father from temptation is a necessary condition of his continued social adjustment. The protections that are built up in the child against desire for the parent become the essential counterpart to the attitudes in the parent that protect the child. Margaret Mead girl attitude children Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain. Margaret Mead nature pigs people I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person. Margaret Mead marriage three time Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males of the same species. There seems very little ground for claiming that the mother of young children is more peaceful, more responsible, and more thoughtful for the welfare of the human race than is her husband or brother. Margaret Mead husband brother mother I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves. Margaret Mead lives-of-others study might Dear Math, please grow up and solve your own problems. I'm tired of solving them for you. Margaret Mead growing-up tired witty Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst. Margaret Mead vision views culture Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-heartedattempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too. Margaret Mead self mother writing All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before. Margaret Mead different age war We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation. Margaret Mead generations differences men
