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It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

Margaret Mead
Inspirational, Motivational, Food

Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several children. But once the children grow older, sisters draw closer together and often, in old age, they become each other's chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and of their relationship to each other's children, they share memories of the same home, the same homemaking style, and the same small prejudices about housekeeping that carry the echoes of their mother's voice.

Margaret Mead
Mother, Children, Growing Up

‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.

Margaret Mead
Grief, Trying, Married

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

Margaret Mead
Retirement, Retiring, Sooner Or Later
Interview in Los Angeles on the occasion of her 75th birthday as quoted in "Newsweek", Volume 88 (p. 157), December 1976.

The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.

Margaret Mead
Believe, Men, Feelings
Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

Anthropology... has always been highly dependent upon photography... As the use of still photography - and moving pictures - has become increasingly essential as a part of anthropological methods, the need for photographers with a disciplined knowledge of anthropology and for anthropologists with training in photography has increased. We expect that in the near future sophisticated training in photography will be a requirement for all anthropologists. (1962)

Margaret Mead
Photography, Moving, Training

The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help average teachers approximate the performance of good teachers.

Margaret Mead
Education, Teacher, Teaching
Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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

Margaret Mead
Honesty, Acceptance, Evil
Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.

Margaret Mead
Thinking, Heterosexuality Is, Heterosexuality

Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.

Margaret Mead
Holy Days, Earth Day, Historical

For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build solidly grounded ideas about the moral and political demands of human life. Margaret Mead saw mid-twentieth-century anthropology as engaged in a project no less ambitious than Kant's own, and her Terry Lectures on Continuities in Cultural Evolution provide an excellent point to enter into her reflections.

Margaret Mead
Reflection, Ideas, Political
"Continuities in Cultural Evolution". Book by Margaret Mead, 1964.

What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.

Margaret Mead
Husband, Children, Romantic Love
Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior... we shall not really succeed in discarding the straitjacket of our cultural beliefs about sexual choice if we fail to come to terms with the well-documented, normal human capacity to love members of both sexes.

Margaret Mead
Sex, Thinking, Capacity To Love
Redbook Magazine, 1975.

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

Margaret Mead
Peace, Two, Bathroom

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.

Margaret Mead
Business, Men, Artist
"Coming of Age in Samoa". Book by Margaret Mead, 1928.

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
Country, Next Week, Cities
Attributed to Margaret Mead in Elaine Partnow "The New Quotable Woman: From Eve To the Present Day" (p. 331), 1993.

Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man

Margaret Mead
Loyalty, Laughter, Hate
Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

Mourning has become unfashionable in the United States. The bereaved are supposed to pull themselves together as quickly as possible and to reweave the torn fabric of life. ... we do not allow ... for the weeks and months during which a loss is realized - a beautiful word that suggests the transmutation of the strange into something that is one's own.

Margaret Mead
Beautiful, Grief, Loss
Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1970). “A way of seeing”

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

Margaret Mead
Funny, Hilarious, Peace
"Quote Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, 1977.

Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.

Margaret Mead
Men

The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.

Margaret Mead
Grandmother, People, Grandparent
Margaret Mead (1992). “To Grandmother with Love: A Special Tribute”, Andrews McMeel Pub

The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.

Margaret Mead
Keys, Atmosphere, Interdependence

Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.

Margaret Mead
Sex, Moving, Sleep

Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is not created out of whole cloth by the young child's biological impulses.

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

EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows and their joys, their victories, their revelations and their obligations alive, for re-celebration and re-dedication another year, another decade, another century, another eon.

Margaret Mead
Sadness, Dedication, Discovery