All Margaret Mead Quotes
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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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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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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
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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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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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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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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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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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
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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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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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