If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
MARGARET MEADIt used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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Women have an important contribution to make.
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With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
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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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The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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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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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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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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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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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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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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