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“Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.”

Quote by Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist known for her groundbreaking fieldwork and theoretical contributions. She is renowned for her studies of the Samoan, Arapesh, and Australian Aboriginal peoples, which had a profound impact on the fields of anthropology and sociology. more

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“The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren't different, perhaps more so.”

Men Way Important Different Assumption

Book:To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead

Source: To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead

“We 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.”

Knows Men Way Said Culture Next Differences Generations Creation Men And Women Next Generation Differences Between Man And Woman

Author:Margaret Mead

“Wonder is very important, because if we never wondered, we would never get to the point of asking questions. Yet wonder may lead people to write poetry or to paint pictures or to pray, as well as to ask the kinds of questions about the world and themselves that can be answered by science.”

People Ifs World Writing Wells Kind May Important Asks Wonder Praying Asking Paint Asking Questions

Book:PEOPLE AND PLACES

Source: PEOPLE AND PLACES

“Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions.”

Ideas Found Accepting Groups Civilization Contradiction Diverse Woven Strands

Book:Coming of Age in Samoa

Source: Coming of Age in Samoa

“We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn, and that we may return to stricter regimentation of women.”

Mind May Opportunity Greater Century Possibility Return Bears Twentieth Century Regimentation

Author:Margaret Mead

“The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.”

Men Winning Ability Effort Equal Rewards Assumption Denied Daydreaming Folklore

Book:And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America

Source: And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America

“It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male; it frightens the men, unsexes the women, and muffles and distorts the contribution women could make.”

Men Has Beens Values Fields He Man Males Defined Contribution Doubtful

Author:Margaret Mead

“... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing.”

Ifs Looks Dies Imagination Childhood Scientist Mirrors Artistic Prophet Fishing Cynical Veils Disillusioned Sneer

Book:Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

“Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.”

World Humans Body Easy Term Loses Plans Modern Walking Sight Sticks Symbols Human Body Modern World Umbrella Immediacy Handbags Walking Sticks

Book:Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

“Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.”

Lovely Breathing Loving You Effortless

Book:To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead

Source: To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead