Margaret Mead quotes - Page : 6

" Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention. " # Mothers # Fathers # Family

" Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. " # Mediocrity # Men and Women # Work

" To cherish the life of the world. " # Friends and Friendship

" A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice. " # Peace # Philosophers and Philosophy # Books - Reading

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

" 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. " # Literature # Love # Listening

" At times it may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. " # Children # Evil # Time and Time Management

" Be lazy, go crazy. " # Laziness

" Because of their age-long training in human relations— for that is what feminine intuition really is— women have a special contribution to make to any group enterprise. " # Women # Intuition # Age and Aging

" Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only one. Where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, business man or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts and varying interests. " # Arts and Artists # Mystics and Mysticism # Business