Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
MARGARET MEADAlways remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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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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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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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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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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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
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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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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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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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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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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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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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Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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Women have an important contribution to make.
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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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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