Margaret Mead Quotes

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

Family, Once, Sister

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

Change, Caring, Few

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

Environmental, Change, Doubt

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Margaret Mead

Funny, Remember, Else

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

Change, Small, Thoughtful

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Margaret Mead

Home, Someone, Human

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

Learning, Work, Age

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Margaret Mead

Learning, Work, Hard

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
Margaret Mead

Human, Find, Rich

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, Religion, Sex

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.
Margaret Mead

Love, Energy, Prayer

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, Manners, Dealing

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
Margaret Mead

Wise, Enough, While

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

Success, Human, Her

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
Margaret Mead

Different, Entirely

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.
Margaret Mead

Family, Live, Before

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
Margaret Mead

Time, Woman, Liberate

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
Margaret Mead

Dad, Social, Accidents

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
Margaret Mead

Children, Point, Knows

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
Margaret Mead

Women, Using, Fierce

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
Margaret Mead

Environmental, Society, Won

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

Time, History, Made

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
Margaret Mead

Die, Later, Retire

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
Margaret Mead

Humility, Baby, Born

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, Able, Listen

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: December 16, 1901

Died: November 15, 1978

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