For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
MARGARET MEADThere is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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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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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
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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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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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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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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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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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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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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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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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