If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter.
Margaret MeadIt has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.
Margaret MeadManners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
Margaret MeadThe semimetaphysical problems of the individual and society, of egoism and altruism, of freedom and determinism, either disappear or remain in the form of different phases in the organization of a consciousness that is fundamentally social.
Margaret Mead