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It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.

It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.

Margaret Mead
Class, Discipline, Mind
"Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education" by Margaret Mead, (p. 406), 1930.

I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman.

Margaret Mead
Doubt, Brain, Reason
Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.

Margaret Mead
Children, Parent, Mentor

A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Margaret Mead
Men, Cities, Groups
Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions.

Margaret Mead
Civilization, Ideas, Groups
Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.

Margaret Mead
Women, Palaces, Slave

If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.

Margaret Mead
Sports, Nfl, Toys

The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature.

Margaret Mead
Sex, Differences, Two
Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

The semimetaphysical problems of the individual and society, of egoism and altruism, of freedom and determinism, either disappear or remain in the form of different phases in the organization of a consciousness that is fundamentally social.

Margaret Mead
Organization, Different, Phases
"Social Cognitive Psychology: History and Current Domains" by David F. Barone, James E. Maddux, Charles R. Snyder, (p. 20), 1997.

You "have a date," you "go out with a date," you "groan because there isn't a decent date in town." A situation defined as containing a girl - or boy - of the right social background, the right degree of popularity, a little higher than your own.

Margaret Mead
Girl, Boys, Men
"Male and Female". Study by Margaret Mead, 1949.

The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable ideal but a necessary condition of continued human existence. But to take even this step we must return to a calm and responsible frame of mind in which we can face the long patient tasks ahead.

Margaret Mead
Law, Long, Mind
"Are Shelters the Answer?". The New York Times Magazine (p. 125), November 26, 1961.

Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent war from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. That is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce.

Margaret Mead
Real, War, Fighting
"Remarks about the Military Draft" by Margaret Mead (June 1968) as quoted in "Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views" edited by Rhoda Metraux (pp. 35-36), 1979.

I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.

Margaret Mead
Growing Up, Stress, Book

In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.

Margaret Mead
Country, People, Growing

An occupation that has no basis in sex-determined gifts can now recruit its ranks from twice as many potential artists.

Margaret Mead
Sex, Artist, Equality
Margaret Mead (1963). “Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies”

If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.

Margaret Mead
Children, Believe, Character
"And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America". Book by Margaret Mead, 1942.

Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.

Margaret Mead
Mother, Men, Envy
"Male and Female". Study by Margaret Mead, 1949.

The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep. The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep.

Margaret Mead
Running, Children, Fall
"Balinese Character". Book by Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, 1942.

Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.

Margaret Mead
Children, Sick, Who Cares
Margaret Mead (1964). “Continuities in Cultural Evolution”, p.321, Transaction Publishers

Margaret Mead was both a student of civilization and an exemplar of it. To a public of millions, she brought the central insight of cultural anthropology: that varying cultural patterns express an underlying human unity. She mastered her discipline, but she also transcended it. Intrepid, independent, plain spoken, fearless, she remains a model for the young and a teacher from whom all may learn.

Margaret Mead
Teacher, Independent, Civilization

Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made a career, to the effect that the ultimate value of studying other cultures was the use we could make of them to reconstruct our own - a heady kind of intellectual imperialism, as if the final meaning of others' lives was their significance for us.

Margaret Mead
Blue, Other Cultures, Careers

Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.

Margaret Mead
Sight, Walking Sticks, Handbags
Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation.

Margaret Mead
Beautiful, Mean, Men
Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

Life is in one of its smoother phases ... I've no responsibilities in the world except friends and students and cherishing the life of the world -- and the belief that there is enough love to go round.

Margaret Mead
Responsibility, World, Phases

Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.

Margaret Mead
Sex, Order, Differences
"Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies". Book by Margaret Mead, p. 48, 1935.