We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday — Margaret Mead
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. — Margaret Mead
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. — Margaret Mead
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have. — Margaret Mead
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question — Margaret Mead
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. — Margaret Mead
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own. — Margaret Mead
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. — Margaret Mead
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. — 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
Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition — Margaret Mead
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood — Margaret Mead