Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (1901-1978) was een Amerikaanse antropoloog en wordt beschouwd als een van de pioniers in de culturele antropologie.

• "Women want mediocre men. and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible."
• "Vrouwen willen middelmatige mannen, en mannen doen hun uiterste best om zo middelmatig mogelijk te zijn."
  • Margaret Mead, in Quote Magazine, May 15, 1958

• "As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own."
  • Margaret Mead, Coming Of Age In Samoa, 1928, Introduction