Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them a….

I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman..

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention..

Women have an important contribution to make..

to the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits only a ver….

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

EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows an….

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act..

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life..

laughter, that distinctively human emotion, laughter which springs from trust in the other, from willingness to put oneself momentarily in the other'….

in all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman..

I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed..

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women..

The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight t….

There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children... with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention….

I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best ….

We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards succe….

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own..

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity..

In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present..

Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made a career, ….