Margaret Mead Quotes

Inherent differences between men and women, we have come to appreciate, remain cause for celebration, but not for denigration of the members of either sex or for artificial constraints on an individual’s opportunity.

I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.

Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

I've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

You can’t protect women without handicapping them in competition with men. If you demand equality you must accept equality. Women can’t have it both ways.

I have often thought there has not been sufficient pains taken in finding out proper employment and diversions for the fair ones. Their amusements seem contrived for them rather as they are women than as they are reasonable creatures; and are more adapted to the sex than to the species.

It was seldom suggested that women’s drudgery could be decreased in the meantime by the simple expedient of sharing it with men.

The result of coeducation shows clearly that there is no mental inferiority on the part of girls.

Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.

No woman ever lived who could compete with a man on an equal basis - even a 55-year-old man. There's a lot of talk about Women's Lib. They feel they're worth as much as the guys, but they can't play a lick if they can't beat a 55-year-old guy.

If I was misogynist, would I hire a woman as my CEO? Probably not. I grew up in Denmark, for crying out loud. Denmark is probably one of the places where equality is actually fully achieved. Our political system is practically a matriarchy.

Why is being a woman so surprising? There are two sexes. A man and a woman. So, if it's not a man in a movie, what else was it going to be?

The point of feminism is you shouldn't have to be a man to be treated with equal respect.

I'm almost a feminist and believe if a girl wants to do something, she should be able to do it in the same way that a man is able to, which is sometimes a problem in our country.

My coach never looked at me as a female fighter, but just as a fighter, as someone he was training. I had to work just as hard as the guys, or harder than them.

I agree that at the end of the day, it's a man's world, but when I'm doing a film, I am working with the director, not a man or a woman.