Margaret Mead Quotes

• Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

  Margaret Mead

  Topics in Father

• And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

  Margaret Mead

• Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.

  Margaret Mead

  Topics in Age, Funny

• 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

  Topics in Age, Funny

• Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.

  Margaret Mead

  Topics in Family

• No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

  Margaret Mead

  Topics in Family

• One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.

  Margaret Mead

  Topics in Friendship

• Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

  Margaret Mead

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Diversity

• Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.

  Margaret Mead

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Persistence

• I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

  Margaret Mead

  Topics in Service, Success

• We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of their country.

  Margaret Mead

  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Religious Freedom

• I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

  Margaret Mead

  Topics in Knowledge, Truth

• 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 gift will find a fitting place.

  Margaret Mead

  Topics in Achievement

Margaret Mead (53)

Birth:	16th December, 1901
Death:	15th November, 1978
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Anthropologist

About

Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured author and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor degree at Barnard College in New York City, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University.

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