Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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More Margaret Mead Quotes
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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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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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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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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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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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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People 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.
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Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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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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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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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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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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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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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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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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