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I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw
— Margaret Mead
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
— Margaret Mead
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
— Margaret Mead
There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
— Margaret Mead
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
— Margaret Mead
I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman.
— Margaret Mead
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
— Margaret Mead
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
— Margaret Mead
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
— Margaret Mead
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
— Margaret Mead
I'm unique just like everyone else
— Margaret Mead
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
— Margaret Mead
In all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman.
— Margaret Mead
Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.
— Margaret Mead
It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.
— Margaret Mead
Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
— Margaret Mead
The mind is not sex-typed.
— Margaret Mead
You are totally unique. Just like everyone else.
— Margaret Mead
The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
— Margaret Mead
Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.
— Margaret Mead
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
— Margaret Mead
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
— Margaret Mead
War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.
— Margaret Mead
I'm always excited to see my good buddy Richelle Mead. She cracks me up. I never get to see Veronica Roth enough, either.
— Margaret Stohl
Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
— Margaret Mead
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
— Margaret Mead
I measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her fellow human beings.
— Margaret Mead
We must have ... a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
— Margaret Mead
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
— Margaret Mead
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
— Margaret Mead
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
— Margaret Mead
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.
— Margaret Mead
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
— Margaret Mead
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift
— Margaret Mead
We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties. (1976
— Margaret Mead
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
— Margaret Mead
Never underestimate that a small group of people can hold up a liquor license. Sometimes, it's the only thing that can.
— Margaret Mead
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
— Margaret Mead
We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
— Margaret Mead
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
— Margaret Mead
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
— Margaret Mead
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
— Margaret Mead
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly ...
— Margaret Mead
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.
— Margaret Mead
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
— Margaret Mead
Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
— Margaret Mead
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
Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children.
— Margaret Mead
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
— Margaret Mead
We have nowhere else to go ... this is all we have.
— Margaret Mead
There is no reason to think a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens cannot change the world; Indeed, that's the only thing that ever has.
— Margaret Mead
And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.
— Margaret Mead
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
— Margaret Mead
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
— Margaret Mead
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
— Margaret Mead
Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.
— Margaret Mead
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
— Margaret Mead
Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
— Margaret Mead
We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.
— Margaret Mead
Women have an important contribution to make.
— Margaret Mead
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?
— Margaret Mead
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
— Margaret Mead
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
— 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.
— Margaret Mead
The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children.
— Margaret Mead
An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
— Margaret Mead
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.
— Margaret Mead
EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.
— Margaret Mead
In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
— Margaret Mead
In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.
— Margaret Mead
Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.
— Margaret Mead
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
— Margaret Mead
An occupation that has no basis in sex-determined gifts can now recruit its ranks from twice as many potential artists.
— Margaret Mead
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For indeed that's all who ever have.
— Margaret Mead
You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
— Margaret Mead
To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.
— Margaret Mead
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.
— Margaret Mead
It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.
— Margaret Mead
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
— Margaret Mead