“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
“Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.”
WomenAll Quotes by Margaret Mead
“Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.”
Family“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“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“Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.”
Family“Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.”
Change“Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.”
Women“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“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
Funny“Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.”
Time“Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.”
Dad“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“Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.”
History“I learned the value of hard work by working hard.”
Learning“Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.”
Time“For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.”
History“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.”
Home“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“I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.”
Respect