Quotes By Margaret Mead

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

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.

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.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.