You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
MARGARET MEAD
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.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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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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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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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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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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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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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 small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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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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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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There 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.
MARGARET MEAD