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, ….

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth b….

Life is in one of its smoother phases ... I've no responsibilities in the world except friends and students and cherishing the life of the world -- a….

In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost….

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a….

Even very recently, the elders could say: 'You know, I have been young and you never have been old.' But today's young people can reply: 'You never h….

We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties..

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

Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several….

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices ….

You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds..

For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build solidly gro….

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

Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any gro….

The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough..

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

Women have an important contribution to make..

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today..

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..

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the da….

If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding way, they are penalized as b….