Margaret Mead on Mind
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Margaret Mead, catalogued under mind, with dates where available.
This page displays 3 quotations attributed to Margaret Mead and filed under "mind" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Margaret Mead, entry #81973: "We — mankind — stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device — our consciousness of the crisis — as our unique contribution."
Attributed to Margaret Mead, entry #185541: "I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion."
3 Quotes by Margaret Mead on Mind
"We — mankind — stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device — our consciousness of the crisis — as our unique contribution."
"I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion."
"No skill, no special aptitude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it was of one sex rather than the other. No child would be relentlessly shaped to one pattern of behavior, but instead there should be many patterns, in a world that had learned to allow to each individual the pattern which was most congenial to his gifts."