Quote #18
I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman. And as I had my father's kind of mind- which was also his mother's- I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.
More from Margaret Mead
- I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
- I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
- Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
- I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples- faraway peoples- so that Americans might better understand themselves.
- For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
- I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
- Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
- I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.