353 Quotes by Margaret Mead

It is typical, in America, that a person’s hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.

You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.

The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It’s one reason why they don’t die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.

You are totally unique. Just like everyone else.

Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality...

Too many people, when they reject God, go on believing in the devil. Many intellectuals have a sense of evil without a confidence in good.

Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

Britons put up with, Americans fix, Canadians cope.