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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.

Margaret Mead

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.
MARGARET MEAD

Appearance End Open Photograph Translation Woman
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
MARGARET MEAD

Behaviour Form Human Thinking Time
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
MARGARET MEAD

Competition Relationship Sister Strong
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Better Country Faith Member Religious Structure Trust
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
MARGARET MEAD

Peace Reward System War
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
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
MARGARET MEAD

Beyond Children Development Life Style Live Ourselves People Resource
Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
MARGARET MEAD

Creation Home Hustle Learning Place Yourself
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
MARGARET MEAD

Pay Possible Price
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
MARGARET MEAD

Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
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
Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
MARGARET MEAD

Corporation Difference Government Passionate Problem
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
MARGARET MEAD

Creature Emotional Expression Grief Humor Intellectual Laughter Loyalty Man
We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
MARGARET MEAD

Consciousness Crisis Evolution Kind Man Ourselves Unique

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