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 Quote

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
- Margaret Mead Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
- Margaret Mead Quote

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead Quote

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
- Margaret Mead Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead Quote

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 Quote

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
- Margaret Mead Quote

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
- Margaret Mead Quote

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

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 Quote

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

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

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead Quote

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
- Margaret Mead Quote

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 Quote

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead Quote

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 Quote

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.
- Margaret Mead Quote

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead Quote

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead Quote