No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
Margaret MeadMaleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play.
Margaret MeadInjustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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 MeadWe know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
Margaret MeadMany people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers abroad, they are focusing their anxieties on home. The reasons are not far to seek. We are at a turning point in human history. . . . We could turn our attention to the problems that going to the Moon certainly will not solve ... But I think this would be fatal to our future. . . . A society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die.
Margaret Mead