353 Quotes by Margaret Mead

To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.

Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.

Mourning has become unfashionable in the United States. The bereaved are supposed to pull themselves together as quickly as possible and to reweave the torn fabric of life. ... we do not allow ... for the weeks and months during which a loss is realized - a beautiful word that suggests the transmutation of the strange into something that is one's own.

Between friends there is no bribery. ... the relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.

The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.

[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.