7 Margaret Mead Quotes on Work

Margaret Mead quotes on work

10. 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.

12. 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.

21. I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

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

33. 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.

50. Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

56. The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.