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The wisdom of Margaret Mead.

 

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Controversial academic, women’s rights activist and one of the world’s best-known anthropologists, Dr. Margaret Mead‘s reports and attitudes on sex in South Pacific and SE Asian cultures informed the 1960s’ sexual revolution in the West.

She herself was thrice married, and thought by many to be bisexual. She did fieldwork in Polynesia in the 1920s and got her Phd in 1925. A truly fascinating and amazing woman, here is a sampling of what she had to say:

  1. “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.”
  2. “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.”
  3. “It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.”
  4. “Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.”
  5. “Man’s role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.”
  6. “Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
  7. “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.”   
  8. “One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.”   
  9. “Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.”
  10. “Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance. “
  11. “Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.”
  12. “Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.”
  13. “Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.”
  14. “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.”  
  15. “The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.”
  16. “The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.”  
  17. “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.”
  18. “We have nowhere else to go… this is all we have.”
  19. “We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.”  
  20. “What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.” 
  21. “Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.”

Margaret Mead (Anthropologist/Women’s Rights Activist)

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