Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
MARGARET MEADAs the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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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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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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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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It 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.
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Women have an important contribution to make.
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If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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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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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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