Quotes by Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

‎ 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.

Grief

Married

Trying

… some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing.

Fishing

Imagination

Mirrors

…recognize and respect Earth’s beautiful systems of balance, between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in the air, mankind, water, air, and land. Most importantly there must always be awareness of the actions by people that can disturb this precious balance.

Animal

Beautiful

Respect

[Among the Arapeh… both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community…] If one comments upon a middle-aged man as good-looking, the people answer: ‘Good-looking? Ye-e-e-s? But you should have seen him before he bore all those children’.

Children

Father

Mother

[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.

Body

Long Ago

Movement

[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

Males

Men

Prestige

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.

Cities

Country

Next Week

A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Cities

Groups

Men

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.

Change

People

Thoughtful

A society which is clamouring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice.

Choices

Giving

Philosophy

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Acceptance

Add

Adults

Again And Again

Age

Aggression

Aggressive

Air

Alternatives

Ambition

America

Animal

Anxiety

Arrogance

Art

Artist

Asking Questions

Assuming

Atmosphere

Attention

Attitude

Awareness

Baby

Back Again

Bad Ass

Bathroom

Beautiful

Bed

Behavior

Being A Mother

Being Sad

Believe

Birthday

Blow

Blue

Body

Book

Boyfriend

Boys

Brain

Breathing

Britons

Brother

Business

Cake

Can Not

Canada

Cancer

Capacity

Capacity To Love

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Quotes by Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

‎ 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.

… some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing.

…recognize and respect Earth’s beautiful systems of balance, between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in the air, mankind, water, air, and land. Most importantly there must always be awareness of the actions by people that can disturb this precious balance.

[Among the Arapeh… both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community…] If one comments upon a middle-aged man as good-looking, the people answer: ‘Good-looking? Ye-e-e-s? But you should have seen him before he bore all those children’.

[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.

[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

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.

A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.

A society which is clamouring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice.

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