Quotes by Mead, Margaret

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would >>

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentia >>

One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are w >>

Quotations about Men and Women

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. >>

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a fu >>

A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, >>

Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation.

Mead, Margaret