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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.

Margaret Mead

If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
MARGARET MEAD

Enough Intelligence Oneself State Understand
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Family Impossible Relative Situation Support
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
MARGARET MEAD

Access Human Need Order
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Believe Burden Satisfaction Sexuality Success Woman
Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Future Imagination Listening Need Reality Willing Work
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
MARGARET MEAD

Creative Force Woman Zeal
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
MARGARET MEAD

Acceptance Evil Goodness Necessary Temporary
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
MARGARET MEAD

Accuracy Believe Information World
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
MARGARET MEAD

Capacity Corporate Ruin
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
MARGARET MEAD

Elder History See Time Young
Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
MARGARET MEAD

Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown
Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
MARGARET MEAD

Beginning End Hands Life Voice
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Body Emotion Movement Oneself Pattern Pleasant
Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
MARGARET MEAD

Beautiful Bribe Equality Friendship Relationship
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
MARGARET MEAD

Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
MARGARET MEAD

Animal Children Dangerous Oneself

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