No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
MARGARET MEADThe 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.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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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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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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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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If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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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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It 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.
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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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Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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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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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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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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