We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
MARGARET MEADIf 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.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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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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The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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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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In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Women have an important contribution to make.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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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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Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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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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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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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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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
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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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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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