Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
MARGARET MEADJealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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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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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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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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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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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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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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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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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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Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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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.
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