Quotes by Margaret Mead

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

— Margaret Mead

Wisdom

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

— Margaret Mead

Wisdom

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

— Margaret Mead

Life

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

Life

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

— Margaret Mead

Success

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

— Margaret Mead

Life

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

— Margaret Mead

Wisdom

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

Success

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

— Margaret Mead

Life

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

— Margaret Mead

Wisdom

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

— Margaret Mead

Success

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

Education

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

Wisdom

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

Success

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

— Margaret Mead

Life

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

— Margaret Mead

Wisdom

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

— Margaret Mead

Life

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

— Margaret Mead

Wisdom

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

— Margaret Mead

Wisdom

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

— Margaret Mead

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Margaret Mead

Wisdom