It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
MARGARET MEADI must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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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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The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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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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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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Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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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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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
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Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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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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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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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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A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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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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