One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
MARGARET MEADAnd when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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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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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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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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What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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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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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
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We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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