Margaret Mead quotes
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
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.
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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.
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.
Because of their agelong training in human relations-for that is what feminine intuition really is-women have a special contribution to make to any group enterprise.
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman. And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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.
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