Margaret Mead Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Margaret Mead

Marriage, Time, Three

No matter how free divorce, how frequently marriages break up, in most societies there is the assumption of permanent mating, of the idea that the marriage should last as long as both live. . . . No known society has ever invented a form of marriage strong enough to stick that did not contain the 'till death us do part' assumption.

Margaret Mead

Marriage, Strong, Divorce

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

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

Margaret Mead

Marriage, Men, Civilization

"Male and Female". Margaret Mead, Ladies' Home Journal, Volume 66 (p. 36), September 1949.