Margaret Mead Quotes

My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy.

I believe in the difference between men and women. In fact, I embrace the difference.

I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.

Men and women are different: we have different tendencies, skills, and behaviors. This should be accepted and fostered, not demonized. Because the end result is simply more effeminate men and more masculine women. Who wants that?

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

Physical, emotional, psychological and social differences [between the sexes] exist and dare not be disregarded.

The distinction between male and female will never stop existing. We are not alike, and I wouldn't want to be.

Boys and girls are not the same.

Gender and sex are about rules which we have invented, but we are animals; we belong to nature.

The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know; what is the 'neighbouring sex'?).

What worries me is that the debate about gender differences still seems to polarize nature vs. nurture, with some in the social sciences and humanities wanting to assert that biology plays no role at all, apparently unaware of the scientific evidence to the contrary

I think, men and women are different. We have different challenges.

Should men and women be equal in all things? Absolutely. But I'm old-fashioned in that I like the differences between the sexes. My male characters are neither Neanderthals nor Prince Charmings. They're flawed.

The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.

Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.

You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.

My mother said that we're so lucky to be women. It's not that men are weak. Men are men. We're two completely different animals.

The end goal of the feminist revolution must be, unlike that of the first feminist revolution, not just elimination of male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself: genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.

There are those who believe that the existence of gender differences at very early ages is evidence that these differences are biological or generic in origin.

If you don't know somebody, whether you're inquiring into their sex or their gender, it's invasive.