Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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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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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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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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