Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in terms of heredity, whether it be of race, or sex, or class. Every social institution which teaches human beings to cringe to those above and step on those below must be replaced by institutions which teach people to look each other straight in the face.
Margaret MeadAnd as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.
Margaret MeadInterest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill, however slightly, he is likely to try out not just one more, but a whole ensemble.
Margaret MeadThe most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
Margaret Mead