I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to ...
MARGARET MEAD Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
MARGARET MEAD Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
MARGARET MEAD It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil a...
MARGARET MEAD One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home...
MARGARET MEAD Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. ...
MARGARET MEAD Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
MARGARET MEAD We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare ...
MARGARET MEAD Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be wom...
MARGARET MEAD What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
MARGARET MEAD Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service, they should not be accepted, voluntar...
MARGARET MEAD If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any g...
MARGARET MEAD Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.
MARGARET MEAD Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is t...
MARGARET MEAD I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.
MARGARET MEAD The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilizati...
MARGARET MEAD Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
MARGARET MEAD I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
MARGARET MEAD Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.
MARGARET MEAD Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's ...
MARGARET MEAD Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything.
MARGARET MEAD Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
MARGARET MEAD If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any ...
MARGARET MEAD We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.
MARGARET MEAD If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamu...
MARGARET MEAD Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it i...
MARGARET MEAD Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
MARGARET MEAD Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting ...
MARGARET MEAD For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elder...
MARGARET MEAD Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and auto...
MARGARET MEAD Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinite...
MARGARET MEAD When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate ...
MARGARET MEAD People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky...
MARGARET MEAD The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a...
MARGARET MEAD A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to t...
MARGARET MEAD It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as e...
MARGARET MEAD One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at nig...
MARGARET MEAD Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read, it merely records the degree of ...
MARGARET MEAD Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With n...
MARGARET MEAD Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
MARGARET MEAD If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be bl...
MARGARET MEAD Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people ...
MARGARET MEAD The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, ...
MARGARET MEAD The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself,...
MARGARET MEAD We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
MARGARET MEAD Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's ...
MARGARET MEAD Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the las...
MARGARET MEAD The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, i...
MARGARET MEAD One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don't come home at...
MARGARET MEAD Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if t...
MARGARET MEAD We won't have a society if we destroy the environment
MARGARET MEAD Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must ha...
MARGARET MEAD Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is...
MARGARET MEAD Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
MARGARET MEAD I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate inform...
MARGARET MEAD Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
MARGARET MEAD Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by ...
MARGARET MEAD We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
MARGARET MEAD Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who e...
MARGARET MEAD Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
MARGARET MEAD A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever...
MARGARET MEAD Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it...
MARGARET MEAD The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain...
MARGARET MEAD Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinit...
MARGARET MEAD Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment...
MARGARET MEAD If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut...
MARGARET MEAD It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the w...
MARGARET MEAD Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are gro...
MARGARET MEAD Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.
MARGARET MEAD The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason ...
MARGARET MEAD Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world: indeed it's the ...
MARGARET MEAD The suffering of either sex -- of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared,...
MARGARET MEAD Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, inc...
MARGARET MEAD No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe th...
MARGARET MEAD Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
MARGARET MEAD Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts ...
MARGARET MEAD Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
MARGARET MEAD Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ...
MARGARET MEAD A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging it...
MARGARET MEAD The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.
MARGARET MEAD I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
MARGARET MEAD Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have...
MARGARET MEAD Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible
MARGARET MEAD Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be wom...
MARGARET MEAD We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or femini...
MARGARET MEAD Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
MARGARET MEAD The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone
MARGARET MEAD A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever h...
MARGARET MEAD The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today...
MARGARET MEAD Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's ...
MARGARET MEAD It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.
MARGARET MEAD And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
MARGARET MEAD I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.
MARGARET MEAD We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable prob...
MARGARET MEAD As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so...
MARGARET MEAD Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive
MARGARET MEAD No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps in
MARGARET MEAD Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and auto...
MARGARET MEAD It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as e...
MARGARET MEAD Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither ...
MARGARET MEAD If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understa...
MARGARET MEAD Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
MARGARET MEAD There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ou...
MARGARET MEAD I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to...
MARGARET MEAD I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or ...
MARGARET MEAD Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to cooperate
MARGARET MEAD Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is ...
MARGARET MEAD If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut...
MARGARET MEAD The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain...
MARGARET MEAD I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had
MARGARET MEAD Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at ...
MARGARET MEAD As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective,...
MARGARET MEAD "WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR."
MARGARET MEAD We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of ...
MARGARET MEAD I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate inform...
MARGARET MEAD Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
MARGARET MEAD Where are you guys getting all of this?" I asked. "What does it matter if I - oh come on."
We'd...
RICHELLE MEAD Screw you," I told him in a low voice.
"Are you offering?”
"From what I've heard, there ...
RICHELLE MEAD My muscles informed me they did not want to go through any more exercise today. So I suggest that ma...
RICHELLE MEAD I had a standing arrangement with God: I'd agree to believe in him—barely—so long as he let me s...
RICHELLE MEAD Come on, Hathaway," he said, taking my arm. "You can be my partner. Let’s see what you’ve been d...
RICHELLE MEAD Oh, so that's why you're up here. For a pity party."

"This isn't a joke. I'm serious." I ...
RICHELLE MEAD I like him."

"Like or like?

"Oh, there's a difference?
RICHELLE MEAD The incident with Dawn hadn't been one of my finer moments. I honestly hadn't expected to break any ...
RICHELLE MEAD I didn't like having reasonable arguments thrown at me.
RICHELLE MEAD He watched as I slipped one of the shoes on. "You have a guardian angel."
"I don't believe in a...
RICHELLE MEAD I'm really not good with impulse control.
RICHELLE MEAD I fought against her, trying to mount some kind of defense, but it was like fighting Dimitri on crac...
RICHELLE MEAD I get in that kind of situation all the time, Comrade. It's not a big deal." Anger replaced my fear....
RICHELLE MEAD Taking a deep breathe, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life.
I walked away.
RICHELLE MEAD Well he didn't treat my mother very well. He did some horrible things."
"Like..." I hesitated. ...
RICHELLE MEAD I crossed my arms over my chest. "Are you lost, little girl? The elementary school's over on west ca...
RICHELLE MEAD When I saw you fall..."
"You thought, 'Wow, she's a loser.
RICHELLE MEAD The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember...
RICHELLE MEAD A ghostly smile flickered across his face. "If you weren't so psychotic, you'd be fun to hang around...
RICHELLE MEAD Hey Mason, wipe the drool off your face. If you're going to think about me naked, do it on your own ...
RICHELLE MEAD Lissa and I had been friends ever since kindergarten, when our teacher had paired us up together for...
RICHELLE MEAD You…you got rid of that dress fast," I pointed out between heavy breaths. "I thought you liked it....
RICHELLE MEAD Wow." I hadn't thought Dimitri could be any cooler, but I was wrong. "You beat up your dad. I mean, ...
RICHELLE MEAD Dimitri: "She might be wild and disrespectful, but if she has potential—"
Rose: "Wild and dis...
RICHELLE MEAD The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless whi...
RICHELLE MEAD The spell. Victor said you had to want me... to care about me... for it to work." When he didn't say...
RICHELLE MEAD He stepped back and threw his arms out.
"I'm always crazy around you Rose. Here, I'm going to w...
RICHELLE MEAD I nearly dropped the plate I held. "You've asked me out tons of times."

"Not really. I've...
RICHELLE MEAD He'd written me up a proposal of why dating him was a sound decision. It had included things like "I...
RICHELLE MEAD Hey, he's awesome. A little unstable, but awesome. We got along great." Adrian opened the door to th...
RICHELLE MEAD Piece of Heaven?"

"No, that other place I'm going to go to for thinking what I'm thinkin...
RICHELLE MEAD I also never would have imagined I'd quote back a church lesson, but when the rest of the crowd stoo...
RICHELLE MEAD Do you think I'm pretty?
I think you're beautiful
Beautiful?
You are so beautiful, it...
RICHELLE MEAD Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.
RICHELLE MEAD And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster.
RICHELLE MEAD It's okay," I said soothingly. "You're just getting your stride back. Once you're up to full power, ...
RICHELLE MEAD You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able t...
RICHELLE MEAD I sprang toward him with the stake, hoping to catch him by surprise. But Dimitri was hard to catch b...
RICHELLE MEAD What's up?" I asked.

You tell me," he said. "You were the one about ready to start making...
RICHELLE MEAD Sometimes talking to you is like talking to myself: pretty damned annoying.
RICHELLE MEAD What’s going on?” he demanded.
“The usual, old man,” I replied cheerily. “Danger, ins...
RICHELLE MEAD Most fathers don't threaten to disembowel their daughter's boyfriends."

"That's not true...
RICHELLE MEAD You might not believe this, but there is no one like her at this school."

"Oh I b...
RICHELLE MEAD Our lips met hungrily, and his clever artistic hands wrapped around my hips. A sudden buzz from my r...
RICHELLE MEAD What's that?" he asked, when I stood beside him again.

"Halos," I said with a grin. "For ...
RICHELLE MEAD Whatever happened to the dragon?"

I mustered my primmest tone. "He has a name, you know."...
RICHELLE MEAD She says you're not awake until you're actually out of bed and standing up.
RICHELLE MEAD Adrian, I'm on a date. Why are you here? On my car?
RICHELLE MEAD Your... Your aura. It's... amazing. It's shining. I mean, it always shines, but today... Well I've n...
RICHELLE MEAD Then the best thing I can do is—"

He froze. The brown eyes that had been narrowed with...
RICHELLE MEAD Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.
RICHELLE MEAD If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.
RICHELLE MEAD Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.

He was in a precarious pos...
RICHELLE MEAD What If Following Her Heart
Means Rose Could Lose Her
Best Friend Forever?
RICHELLE MEAD Do not do that again," he said stiffly.
"Don't kiss me back then," I retorted.
He stared a...
RICHELLE MEAD If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop u...
SHEPHERD MEAD He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.
RICHELLE MEAD With a few swift steps, Adrian stood in front of me again. The wall was only a couple inches behind ...
RICHELLE MEAD But each time you use spirit, you're more likely to go crazy.”
“Already crazy about you, Sa...
RICHELLE MEAD Wait,” he said. “That’s not a word.”

I looked down to where, in a moment of despe...
RICHELLE MEAD We cannot be a civilized society if these terrorists are going to have their ways.
MATT MEAD Are you in a suit?' I managed at last, my voice choking up. 'You didn’t have to dress up for me.'<...
RICHELLE MEAD Look, Sage. I don't know much about chemistry or computer hacking or photosynthery, but this is some...
RICHELLE MEAD So many details came into focus. The shape of his lips, the line of his neck. “I’m not dangerous...
RICHELLE MEAD My nails dug into his back, and he trailed his lips down the edge of my chin, down the center of my ...
RICHELLE MEAD I’m not a warrior or a goddess,” I said at last.

Adrian leaned closer. “As far as I...
RICHELLE MEAD I won’t lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of m...
RICHELLE MEAD Because I’ve got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding."
RICHELLE MEAD Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it com...
RICHELLE MEAD Really, Sage? A date?”
I sighed. “Yes, Adrian. A date.”
“A real date. Not, like, d...
RICHELLE MEAD You're not as much of a lost cause as she was. I mean, with her, I had to overcome her deep, epic lo...
RICHELLE MEAD I decided the Alchemists needed an entire department devoted to handling Adrian Ivashkov.
RICHELLE MEAD I tried to be a better person for her– but it was to impress her, to get her to want me. But when ...
RICHELLE MEAD Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my ...
RICHELLE MEAD How do you know if a demon is lying? His lips are moving.
RICHELLE MEAD I don't balance you like you need."
"What the hell does that mean?" he exclaimed.
My heart...
RICHELLE MEAD Anytime you're saying that a person will be thinking one way or another or biased one way or ano...
MATT MEAD I used to think you were weak and just didn't fight back ... but now, honestly, I think you're actua...
RICHELLE MEAD The center will hold.”

“How do you know?”

“Because we are the...
RICHELLE MEAD My God, Sage. Your eyes. How have I never noticed them?"

That uncomfortable feeling was s...
RICHELLE MEAD Hey, if you'd wanted to avoid 'this,' you shouldn't have lured me last night. Now it's too late. You...
RICHELLE MEAD You've always been my equal, Roza.
RICHELLE MEAD We can't..." he told me.
"I know," I agreed.

Then his mouth was on mine again, and t...
RICHELLE MEAD You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.
RICHELLE MEAD