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Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College in New York City and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University.

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

Acceptance, Awareness, Justice, Love

When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?

Canada, Cities, Look, Looks, Prove

I think the important thing about sisters is that they share the same minute, familiar life-style, the same little sets of rules. Therefore they can keep house with each other late in life, because they share the same bunch of housewifely prejudices. The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

House, Housewifely, Men, Prejudices, Share, Thinking

People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.

Divorce, Frequency, Marriage, People, Same, Stills

I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the nature of adolescence itself or to the civilization? Under different conditions does adolescence present a different picture?

Adolescence, Civilization, Different, Doe, Sent, Under

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

Difference, Differences, Generations, Know, Men

today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

Children, Destroy, Generation, Grow, Growing Up, War

And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.

Father, Kind, Mind, Mother, Sex

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?

Assures, Child, Culture, Docile, Sex

It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for.

Earth, Environmental, Moon, Picture, Planet

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.

Answer, Cutting, Giving, Popular, Science

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.

Cities, Cliff, Law, Mother, Percent, Prefer

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

Humanity, Infinitely, Inherited, Together, Woven

An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift

Culture, Humans, Ideals, Human, Ideal, Place

If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.

Free, Past, People, Remain, Support, Tolerate

Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.

Children, Growing, Older, Past, People

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone

Power, Save, States, United States, World

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.

Age, Different, Essentially, Grew, War

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.

Hundred, Palaces, Slave, Suburban, Time, Women

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.

Fighting, Humanity, Protect, Real, War, Way

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