Women have an important contribution to make.
MARGARET MEADThe assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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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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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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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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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
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The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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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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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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There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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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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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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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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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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The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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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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