Margaret Mead

"My grandmother wanted her children to speak well and to be well-educated."

"We are in danger of creating a world in which the adolescent is no longer an adolescent."

"Social change is brought about by those who believe things can be different."

"The art of cross-cultural understanding is much richer than we imagine."

"Be patient with all that is unresolved in your heart."

"In Bali, we found a people who had learned to live without warfare."

"The American way of childhood is peculiar and possibly disadvantageous."

"I give advice only when asked and rarely then."

"To achieve true friendship, there must be vulnerability."

"The need for security and safety is paramount in human motivation."

"We should design communities where children can grow safely."

"Authority is not inherent; it must be earned through respect."

"The greatest middle-class values lie in the way we treat our children."

"If we are serious about peace, we must value all human life equally."

"Creativity is the ability to see new connections between things."

"We have constructed a world in which we are increasingly afraid of each other."

"The way to do is to be."

"We are daughter of our culture, not prisoners of it."

"Anthropology is the study of humanity in all its complexity."

"I have spent most of my life studying other cultures to better understand our own."

"Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious."

"We must teach children to question authority without fear of punishment."

"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

"We need to build a world that values diversity rather than conformity."

"The family is the basic unit of society, and its health determines the society's health."

"Adversity does not build character; it reveals it."

"We are the only species that has become so alienated from our nature."

"Life is measured not by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away."

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."

"We must stop thinking of culture as a product and start thinking of it as a process."