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For art to be reality, the whole sensuous being must be caught up in the experience.

For art to be reality, the whole sensuous being must be caught up in the experience.

Margaret Mead
Art, Reality, Caught

Learned behaviors have replaced the biologically given ones.

Margaret Mead
Behavior, Given, Learned Behavior
"Male and Female". Study by Margaret Mead, 1949.

The mind is not sex-typed.

Margaret Mead
Sex, Justice, Mind
Blackberry Winter ch. 5 (1972)

Never underestimate that a small group of people can hold up a liquor license. Sometimes, it's the only thing that can.

Margaret Mead
People, Groups, Underestimate

The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the father from temptation is a necessary condition of his continued social adjustment. The protections that are built up in the child against desire for the parent become the essential counterpart to the attitudes in the parent that protect the child.

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

All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.

Margaret Mead
War, Age, Different

Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-heartedattempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

Margaret Mead
Mother, Writing, Self

Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.

Margaret Mead
Views, Vision, Culture
Margaret Mead, Paul Byers (1968). “The small conference: An innovation in communication”, p.6, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill, however slightly, he is likely to try out not just one more, but a whole ensemble.

Margaret Mead
Sports, Swimming, Fishing

most people prefer to carry out the kinds of experiments that allow the scientist to feel that he is in full control of the situation rather than surrendering himself to the situation, as one must in studying human beings as they actually live.

Margaret Mead
Science, People, Study
Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

Margaret Mead
Mother, Cake, Being A Mother

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
Birthday, Teacher, Long Distance
Margaret Mead (1970). “Culture and Commitment”

The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality.

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

Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.

Margaret Mead
Cynicism, Sentimentality

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

Margaret Mead
Creativity, Thinking, Creative

The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on the whole, educated people have more ways to make friends... . In England, for instance, you find everyone in your class has read the same books. Here, people grope for something in common-like a newly engaged girl who came to me and said, "It's absolutely wonderful! His uncle and my cousin were on the same football team.

Margaret Mead
Friendship, Girl, Football

What are the determinative factors in the early training of the child which assures that it will be placid and contented, unaggressive and non-initiatory, non-competitive and responsive, warm, docile, and trusting?

Margaret Mead
Sex, Culture, Docile
"Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies". Book by Margaret Mead, 1935.

The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

Margaret Mead
Men, House, Important

the experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table, is an inescapable, delightful and repelling, desired and abhorred part of each child's life.

Margaret Mead
Brother, Children, Sleep
Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”