Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time. - Margaret Mead. View more images...

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. - Margaret Mead. View more images...

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind. - Margaret Mead. View more images...

The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough. - Margaret Mead. View more images...

I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to his or her fellow human beings. - Margaret Mead. View more images...

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. - Margaret Mead. View more images...

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world. - Margaret Mead. View more images...

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance. - Margaret Mead. View more images...

Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law. - Margaret Mead. View more images...

Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law. - Margaret Mead. View more images...

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. - Margaret Mead. View more images...

Women want mediocre men. And men are working hard to become as medicore as possible. - Margaret Mead. View more images...

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind. - Margaret Mead. View more images...