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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Written by Margaret Mead
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
Written by Margaret Mead
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
Written by Margaret Mead
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
Written by Margaret Mead
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
Written by 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.
Written by Margaret Mead
The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.
Written by Margaret Mead
The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
Written by 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.
Written by 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.
Written by Margaret Mead
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
Written by Margaret Mead
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
Written by 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.
Written by Margaret Mead
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
Written by Margaret Mead
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Written by 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.
Written by Margaret Mead
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Written by Margaret Mead
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
Written by Margaret Mead
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
Written by Margaret Mead
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Written by 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.
Written by Margaret Mead
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
Written by Margaret Mead
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
Written by Margaret Mead
We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.
Written by Margaret Mead
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
Written by Margaret Mead
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Written by Margaret Mead
Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
Written by Margaret Mead
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
Written by Margaret Mead
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
Written by Margaret Mead
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
Written by Margaret Mead

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