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Famous Quotes By Margaret Mead
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.
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
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.
Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
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.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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