353 Quotes by Margaret Mead

I’ve been married three times – and each time I married the right person.

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.

It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.

Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is not created out of whole cloth by the young child’s biological impulses.

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.

No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.

We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.

When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn’t be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?

We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn, and that we may return to stricter regimentation of women...