Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. – Margaret Mead
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
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. – Margaret Mead
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
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. – Margaret Mead
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
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
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
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. – 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
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
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
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have. – Margaret Mead
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. – Margaret Mead
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
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. – Margaret Mead
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
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
