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.
MARGARET MEADThe atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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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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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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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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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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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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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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