Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
MARGARET MEADThrough a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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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 solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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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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It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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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 suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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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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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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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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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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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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Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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