Margaret Mead Quotes

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

The family is not just the basic unit of society; it is the basic unit of eternity.

We don't have the family organization the way we used to. My father lives with us because we have the room. The greatest of all opportunities for our children is a complete family unit.

I write about families. That is who we are.

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

Tell me, who doesn't want to have a family to extend himself/herself?

The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.

The family is the corner stone of our society.

Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?

I really like reading about how families work together.

The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations.

I grew up with a big family. I want that. I want to have my own family.

I come from a typical family.

Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.

I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.

I'm attracted to stories that deal with the family and what it's like to be a member of that family, whether it's together or apart, given the pressures that are put on it by the outside world.

I'm from a big family. I've got 10 nieces and nephews.

The family is the most important unit of society…. When all is said and done, there is nothing more important than the family.

There are five members in my family.

My family big as hell, man.

"Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word family and using it as a code for censorship the same way "states' rights" was used to disguise racism in the mid-sixties.

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.