Occupation: Cultural Anthropologist Birth: December 16, 1901 Death: November 15, 1978
I learned the value of hard work by working hard..
For art to be reality, the whole sensuous being must be caught up in the experience..
EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety..
A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit he….
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 ….
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire..
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence..
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived..
Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to….
It used to be when we said, ''til death do us part,' death parted us pretty soon. That's why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead..
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….
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like..
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had..
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….
People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the gr….
the task of each family is also the task of all humanity. This is to cherish the living, remember those who have gone before, and prepare for those w….
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..
Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children indepen….
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited..
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest..