Quotes by Margaret Mead

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.