Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
MARGARET MEADI think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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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 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 time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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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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With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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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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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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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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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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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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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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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.
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