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.
MARGARET MEADNever believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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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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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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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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In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
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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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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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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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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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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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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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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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You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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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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The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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