Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
MARGARET MEADYoung people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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I had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
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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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One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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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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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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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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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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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 think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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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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