Margaret Mead on Women
1901–1978 United States
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible.
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)
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation.
Male and Female (1949)
...that is, the women and children must never know that they are really bamboo flutes, or hollow logs, or bits of elliptic wood whirled on strings.
We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties. (1976)