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.
MARGARET MEADSister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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