The negative cautions of science are never popular.
MARGARET MEADEvery time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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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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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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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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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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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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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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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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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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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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The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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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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