01c. 1939 ADI personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to his or her fellow human beings.Margaret Mead / quote ↗
02c. 1939 ADEach suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.Margaret Mead / quote ↗
03c. 1939 ADI have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.Margaret Mead / quote ↗
05c. 1939 ADHuman nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.Margaret Mead / quote ↗
06c. 1939 ADAnthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.Margaret Mead / quote ↗
07c. 1939 ADAs 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 / quote ↗
08c. 1939 ADSister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.Margaret Mead / quote ↗
09c. 1939 ADNobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.Margaret Mead / quote ↗
10c. 1939 ADIt is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.Margaret Mead / quote ↗
11c. 1939 ADMany societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.Margaret Mead / quote ↗
12c. 1939 ADWomen want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.Margaret Mead / quote ↗
13c. 1939 ADThanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.Margaret Mead / quote ↗
14c. 1939 ADFor the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.Margaret Mead / quote ↗
15c. 1939 ADI must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.Margaret Mead / quote ↗
16c. 1939 ADNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.Margaret Mead / quote ↗
17c. 1939 ADNever believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.Margaret Mead / quote ↗
18c. 1939 ADA small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.Margaret Mead / quote ↗
19c. 1939 ADOne of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.Margaret Mead / quote ↗
