Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
MARGARET MEADSomehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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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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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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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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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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To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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