If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
MARGARET MEADThe people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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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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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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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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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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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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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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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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You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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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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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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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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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
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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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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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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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