There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
MARGARET MEADPeople are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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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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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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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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We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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The 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.
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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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The 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.
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Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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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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Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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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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Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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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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Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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