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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

Margaret Mead
Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren
Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.

Margaret Mead
Acceptance, Justice, Awareness

Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.

Margaret Mead
Contentment, Pay, Can Not

You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.

Margaret Mead
Feels, Love Someone, Knows

We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex.

Margaret Mead
Sex, Masculine And Feminine, Personality
"Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies". Book by Margaret Mead, 1935.

Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.

Margaret Mead
Spring, Lying, Winter
Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

Margaret Mead
Believe, America, Characteristics

Dear Math, please grow up and solve your own problems. I'm tired of solving them for you. Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Margaret Mead
Witty, Growing Up, Tired

Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.

Margaret Mead
Mother, Law, Cities
Attributed to Margaret Mead in Caroline Adams Miller "Bright Words for Dark Days: Meditations for Women Who Get the Blues" (p. 10), 1994.

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
Respect, People, Way

I discovered when I had a child of my own that I had become a biased observer of small children. Instead of looking at them with affectionate but nonpartisan eyes, I saw each of them as older or younger, bigger or smaller, more or less graceful, intelligent, or skilled than my own child.

Margaret Mead
Children, Eye, Intelligent

I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?

Margaret Mead
Religious, Animal, Hands

Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, 'Go to sleep by yourselves.' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.

Margaret Mead
Children, Sleep, Independent
"Growing Old in America". Grace Hechinger, Family Circle Magazine, July 25, 1977.

Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.

Margaret Mead
Children, Educational, Learning

If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding way, they are penalized as being conspicuously better than the peer group. The culture tries to make the child with a gift into a one-sided person, to penalize him at every turn, to cause him trouble in making friends and to create conditions conducive to the development of a neurosis. Neither teachers, the parents of other children, nor the child peers will tolerate a Wunderkind.

Margaret Mead
Motivational, Teacher, Children

The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.

Margaret Mead
Teaching, Learning, Teach
Margaret Mead (1964). “Continuities in Cultural Evolution”, p.44, Transaction Publishers

There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.

Margaret Mead
Zest, Creative, World

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

Margaret Mead
Time, Women, Bad Ass
Attributed to Margaret Mead in "La Abogada" newsletter, Volume 3, by International Federation of Women Lawyers (p. 5), 1967.

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.

Margaret Mead
Funny, Trust, Children

The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.

Margaret Mead
Cutting, Science, Giving
Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.

Margaret Mead
Breathing, Loving You, Lovely
Margaret Mead, Margaret Mary Caffrey, Patricia A. Francis (2006). “To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead”, p.105, Basic Books

Between friends there is no bribery. ... the relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.

Margaret Mead
Friends, Beautiful, Clever

I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.

Margaret Mead
Marriage, Time, Three

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

Margaret Mead
Jealousy, Insecurity, Depth
Margaret Mead, William O. Beeman (2004). “Studying Contemporary Western Society: Method and Theory”, p.293, Berghahn Books

The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.

Margaret Mead
Cities, Weakness, Wells
Margaret Mead (1972). “Twentieth century faith: hope and survival”