All Margaret Mead Quotes
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 in
Age
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
Margaret Mead
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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 in
Nature
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Margaret Mead
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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
Margaret Mead
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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
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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
Margaret Mead
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Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
Margaret Mead
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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
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Margaret Mead
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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
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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
Margaret Mead
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