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.
MARGARET MEADThere 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.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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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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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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There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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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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Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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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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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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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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Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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