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.
MARGARET MEADThere is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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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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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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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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The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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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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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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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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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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What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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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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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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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.
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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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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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