A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
Margaret Mead

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Margaret Mead

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

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
Margaret Mead

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Margaret Mead

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
Margaret Mead

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
Margaret Mead

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
Margaret Mead


Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Margaret Mead

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
Margaret Mead

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

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Margaret Mead

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

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
Margaret Mead

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
Margaret Mead

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

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

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
Margaret Mead