353 Quotes by Margaret Mead
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As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
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Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.
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Margaret Mead was both a student of civilization and an exemplar of it. To a public of millions, she brought the central insight of cultural anthropology: that varying cultural patterns express an underlying human unity. She mastered her discipline, but she also transcended it. Intrepid, independent, plain spoken, fearless, she remains a model for the young and a teacher from whom all may learn.
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We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.
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We must have...a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.
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The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.
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