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.
MARGARET MEADFor the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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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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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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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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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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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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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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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Women have an important contribution to make.
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