Quote

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

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
Value
Prestige
Values
Partly
Always
Activities
Men
Male
Males
Consequence
Authority
Activity
Attaches

More quotes by Margaret Mead

Image
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.
Margaret Mead
Image
I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast. ... In college, in some way that I devoutly believed in but could not explain, I expected to become a person.
Margaret Mead
Image
Maleness in America is not absolutely defined it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play.
Margaret Mead
Image
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
Margaret Mead
Image
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
Margaret Mead
Image
I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.
Margaret Mead
Image
I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.
Margaret Mead
Image
Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.
Margaret Mead
Image
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
Margaret Mead
Image
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Margaret Mead
Image
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
Margaret Mead
Image
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
Margaret Mead
Image
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Margaret Mead
Image
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
Margaret Mead
Image
War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.
Margaret Mead
Image
I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.
Margaret Mead
Image
In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.
Margaret Mead
Image
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
Margaret Mead
Image
All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
Margaret Mead
Image
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
Margaret Mead