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

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
Margaret Mead

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
Margaret Mead

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

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
Margaret Mead

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
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

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

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Margaret Mead

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
Margaret Mead

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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

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

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
Margaret Mead

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
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

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

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
Margaret Mead

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
Margaret Mead

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
Margaret Mead

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.
Margaret Mead

Biography
Nationality: American
Type: Scientist
Born: December 16, 1901
Died: November 15, 1978