Margaret Mead

Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropo ...

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if t ...

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, ...

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's ...

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it ...

“Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that ...

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the w ...

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must ha ...

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at ...

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment ...