Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
MARGARET MEADChildren not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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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We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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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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Women have an important contribution to make.
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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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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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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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We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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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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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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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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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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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.
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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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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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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.
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Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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