Margaret Mead Quotes on Work
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Because of their age-long training in human relations- for that is what feminine intuition really is- women have a special contribution to make to any group enterprise.
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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.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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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.
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Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
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The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.