Margaret Mead Quotes

And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.

in intellect there is no sex.

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

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

I do not feel that some things are masculine and others are feminine.

I've always seen the world as very gender-neutral.

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

The mind has no sex.

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel I am just me, and I should be able to do whatever I like.

I was a regular little boy who also enjoyed things that girls did.

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

In mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence.

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.

Masculinity is what you believe it to be. I think masculinity and femininity is something that's very old-fashioned. There's a whole new generation of people who aren't defined by their sex or race or who they like to sleep with.

The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement

There is living proof that the world's oldest profession is not limited to any one sex.

The social degradation of women was a major objective of the feminist movement…. They tell women that in order to be equal they have to be just as promiscuous as men… The Constitution is a beautiful sex neutral document…. The whole idea of feminism is a fraud. As a matter of fact, it is worse than a fraud.

I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.

I have always fought against being gender specific. I just don't like being identified as female: I'm a person.

She raised me to not think of men and women as different. She raised me without gender. It's kind of the reason she named me Billie. It's not about being a strong woman - it's about being a strong person.

I've never felt that being a woman was a competitive advantage or disadvantage.

Gender doesn't exist in my book.

What I learned through my research is that the word 'actor,' specifically in reference to those who performed in plays, came about in the late 1500s as a non-gendered word. It applied to all people, regardless of anatomical sex or gender identity.

Bodies have a sex, but gender is a thing we made up, like your star sign or nationality. It doesn't really say anything about who you are. The destruction of gender binary would free everybody.