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.
MARGARET MEADAn ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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Women have an important contribution to make.
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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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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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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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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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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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