There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
MARGARET MEADMany societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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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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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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We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Children 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.
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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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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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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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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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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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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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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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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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