Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

27 quotes

Margaret Mead, an American cultural anthropologist, is widely remembered for insights that continue to resonate with readers everywhere. Margaret Mead's observations on Time are as sharp as their thoughts on Women, revealing genuine breadth of mind. Our collection holds 38 quotes from Margaret Mead, each offering a different angle on Time, Women, Change, Age, and Work. Among their most shared lines: "Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

“I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.”

— Margaret Mead

Women

All Quotes by Margaret Mead

“Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.”

— Margaret Mead

Change

“A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”

— Margaret Mead

Change

“Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.”

— Margaret Mead

Family

“I learned the value of hard work by working hard.”

— Margaret Mead

Learning

“Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.”

— Margaret Mead

Men

“For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.”

— Margaret Mead

History

“Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.”

— Margaret Mead

Time

“Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.”

— Margaret Mead

Time

“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”

— Margaret Mead

Funny

“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.”

— Margaret Mead

Age

“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.”

— Margaret Mead

Age

“Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.”

— Margaret Mead

Women

“I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.”

— Margaret Mead

Respect

“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.”

— Margaret Mead

Fear

“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.”

— Margaret Mead

Science

“Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.”

— Margaret Mead

Dad

“Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.”

— Margaret Mead

Nature

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”

— Margaret Mead

Change

“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.”

— Margaret Mead

Age

“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.”

— Margaret Mead

Food