Quote #34

I've been married three times- and each time I married the right person.

More from Margaret Mead

  1. 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 regret…
  2. Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.
  3. 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 …
  4. Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
  5. It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.
  6. Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store wh…
  7. Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
  8. Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.

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