The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
MARGARET MEADWe – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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I had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
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The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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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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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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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.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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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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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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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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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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What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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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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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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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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Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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