Quotes by Margaret Mead

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

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

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

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

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

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

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.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.