Margaret Mead Women Quotations

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

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

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

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

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

Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well as private. But it is men, far more than women, who have been liberated by this change. For now that women use these terms, men no longer need to watch their own language in the presence of women. But is this a gain for women?

Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.

Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.

Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.