88 quotes
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views (1979)
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples — faraway peoples — so that Americans might better understand themselves.
Justin Wintle (2002)
It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.
Growing Up in New Guinea (1930)
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
Banned Books Week '93: Celebrating the Freedom to Read (1993)
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible.
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.
Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views (1979)
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
The Quotable Woman (1991)
The ability to learn is older — as it is also more widespread — than is the ability to teach.
Continuities in Cultural Evolution (1964)
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935)
The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.
Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1992)
Learned behaviors have replaced the biologically given ones.
Male and Female (1949)
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.
Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935)
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
World's Grandmother (1975)
The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
Sisters by Birth Friends by Choice : All the Things I Love About You (2003)
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
Two Hugs for Survival (1982)
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.