What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
MARGARET MEADNo society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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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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The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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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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If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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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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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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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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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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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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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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Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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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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To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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