Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
MARGARET MEADThere is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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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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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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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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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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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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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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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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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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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.
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There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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