Margaret Mead citations

Margaret Mead est une anthropologue américaine.

Formée à l'université Columbia par Franz Boas, Margaret Mead a contribué à populariser les apports de l'anthropologie culturelle aux États-Unis et dans le monde occidental. Ses travaux portent notamment sur le rapport à la sexualité dans les cultures traditionnelles de l'Océanie et du sud-est asiatique.

Son travail sur la sexualité des Samoans a suscité la controverse.

Dans le contexte de la révolution sexuelle des années 1960, Mead était en faveur d'une ouverture des mœurs sexuelles au sein de la vie traditionnelle religieuse occidentale. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. décembre 1901 – 15. novembre 1978
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Margaret Mead: Citations en anglais

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

Source: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657 note: 1940s, Male and Female (1949)

“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.”

Attributed in The Quotable Woman (1991) by the Running Press, p. 53
1990s

“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”

Variante: Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

“Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.”

Attributed in Talent Development for English Language Learners: Identifying and Developing Potential (2013) by Michael S. Matthews, Ph.D. SBN-13:9781618211057
2000s
Variante: Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

“Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For indeed that's all who ever have.”

Source: The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future

“It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.”

Attributed in American Quotations (1992) by Gorton Carruth and Eugene H. Ehrlich, p. 149
1990s

“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.”

As quoted in Teacher's Treasury of Stories for Every Occasion (1958) by Millard Dale Baughman, p. 69
1950s

“Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.”

Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man.
Source: 1970s, Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views (1979), p. 121

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

Quote magazine (15 June 1958)
1950s
Contexte: When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed. Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible.

“No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.”

"Future Families", in The American People in the Age of Kennedy (1973) edited by David M. Kennedy , p. 108
1970s
Contexte: No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. You can get rid of it if you live in an enclave and keep everybody else out, and bring the children up to be unfit to live anywhere else. They can go on ignoring the family for several generations. But such communities are not part of the main world.

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

Attributed in La Abogada newsletter, Vol. 3 (1967) by International Federation of Women Lawyers, p. 5
1960s

“Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.”

Attributed in Sisters by Birth Friends by Choice : All the Things I Love About You (2003) by Ellyn Sanna
2000s

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

Attributed in Banned Books Week '93: Celebrating the Freedom to Read (1993) by Robert P. Doyle, p. 62
1990s

“I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.”

Attributed in Psychology (1990) by Carole Wade and Carol Tavris, p. 372
1990s

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