A Quote by Margaret Mead

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead
American - Scientist
December 16, 1901 - November 15, 1978

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Madeleine Albright

There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women.

Madeleine Albright

Women right now, we can't make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women.

Abbi Jacobson

There's mediocre jazz, mediocre salesmen, mediocre golfers. If you want to be good, you have to really hone your skills.

Jason Moran

In December 1989, my mother died very suddenly, and that sparked a re-evaluation of what I was doing, and I realized I was mediocre at everything. I was a mediocre IBM employee, I was a mediocre entrepreneur, I was a mediocre artist. I decided that, although my mom wouldn't be around to see it, I wanted to be great at something.

Jim McKelvey

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

Simone de Beauvoir

Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.

Emile M. Cioran

This isn’t a game. We don’t want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you’ve spent most of your time here being mediocre.

Richelle Mead

If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.

Grace Hartigan

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

Edwin Louis Cole

Hung-up women can't produce anything but mediocre art, and there ain't no room for mediocre art.

Patti Smith

[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men astoundingly mediocre, and even less than mediocre. That is to say, modern science, the root and symbol of our actual civilization, finds a place for the intellectually commonplace man and allows him to work therein with success.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

I have so many girlfriends in their twenties who live in a white box apartment, having mediocre meals with mediocre friends, waiting for the life they want to hit them in their forties or fifties. They are settling in the now - what's the point?