Quote

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

Margaret Mead

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
Anthropologist
Cultural Anthropologist
Curator
Film Director
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Find
Rich
Arbitrary
Human
Values
Fabric
Samoa
Humans
Less
Diverse
Contrasting
Whole
History
Tolerance
Gamut
Must
Culture
Diversity
Potentialities
Social
Recognize
Weave
Place
Gift
Richer
Women
Achieve
Fitting

More quotes by Margaret Mead

Image
Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
Margaret Mead
Image
human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
Margaret Mead
Image
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Margaret Mead
Image
When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?
Margaret Mead
Image
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Margaret Mead
Image
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
Margaret Mead
Image
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
Margaret Mead
Image
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
Margaret Mead
Image
The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality.
Margaret Mead
Image
In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
Margaret Mead
Image
The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
Margaret Mead
Image
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
Margaret Mead
Image
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
Margaret Mead
Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
Margaret Mead
Image
The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren't different, perhaps more so.
Margaret Mead
Image
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift
Margaret Mead
Image
the task of each family is also the task of all humanity. This is to cherish the living, remember those who have gone before, and prepare for those who are not yet born.
Margaret Mead
Image
Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill, however slightly, he is likely to try out not just one more, but a whole ensemble.
Margaret Mead
Image
Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.
Margaret Mead
Image
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
Margaret Mead