Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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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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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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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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We 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.
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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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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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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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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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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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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