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We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.

Margaret Mead

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
MARGARET MEAD

Believe Fierce Woman
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Better Goodness Society Thinking
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
MARGARET MEAD

Enough Intelligence Oneself State Understand
The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
MARGARET MEAD

Assume Damage Different Important Man Oneself Woman
Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Children Destroy Generation Growth Power World
No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
MARGARET MEAD

Allow Capable Country Distribution Escape Expectation Fire Human Kill Population Violence Wound
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
MARGARET MEAD

Anonymous Carry Strength Weakness
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
MARGARET MEAD

Better Life Live People Study Understand
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Ability Creation Daydream Effort Equality Experience Man Reward
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
MARGARET MEAD

Beyond Children Development Life Style Live Ourselves People Resource
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
MARGARET MEAD

Culture Human Order Understand
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
MARGARET MEAD

Difficult Human Love Oneself Relationship
Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
MARGARET MEAD

Order Yourself
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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Believe Enough Growth Myself People Wisdom
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social

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