“Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.”
Men
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
FunnyAll Quotes by Margaret Mead
“Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.”
Change“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.”
Age“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.”
Home“Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.”
Time“I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.”
Success“I learned the value of hard work by working hard.”
Learning“Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.”
Age“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.”
Science“I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.”
Women“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”
Change“A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.”
Food“Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.”
Time“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.”
Age“Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.”
History“We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.”
Environmental“For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.”
History“Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.”
Love“It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.”
Fear“Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.”
Dad