Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
MARGARET MEADI had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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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.
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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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