Margaret Mead on Humor
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Margaret Mead, catalogued under humor, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Margaret Mead, entry #73768: "Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship."
Attributed to Margaret Mead, entry #116915: "Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation."
4 Quotes by Margaret Mead on Humor
"Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship."
"Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation."
"Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man."
"You "have a date," you "go out with a date," you "groan because there isn't a decent date in town." A situation defined as containing a girl — or boy — of the right social background, the right degree of popularity, a little higher than your own."