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 MEADWith 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 MEADWe end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
MARGARET MEADTo demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
MARGARET MEADHome, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
MARGARET MEADThe 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.
MARGARET MEADI was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
MARGARET MEADHaving two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
MARGARET MEADGrandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
MARGARET MEADWe will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
MARGARET MEADThe atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
MARGARET MEADIt used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
MARGARET MEADThe need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
MARGARET MEADIt 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.
MARGARET MEADI suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
MARGARET MEADThe anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
MARGARET MEADYou just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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