Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
MARGARET MEADWith 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.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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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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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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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.
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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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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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As 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.
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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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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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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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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Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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