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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.

Margaret Mead

I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
MARGARET MEAD

Nature Pervert Thinking
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
MARGARET MEAD

Education Goodness Myself Possible School
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Appreciation Culture Home Knowledge Travel Wisdom
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
MARGARET MEAD

Capacity Corporate Ruin
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 MEAD

Appearance End Open Photograph Translation Woman
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
MARGARET MEAD

Life Philosophy Right Sarcasm Time
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
MARGARET MEAD

Discover Philosophy Water
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
MARGARET MEAD

Death Myself Retirement
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Different First National Press Run Society View
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
MARGARET MEAD

Afraid Along Man Woman
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Education Society Teaching Woman
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
MARGARET MEAD

Genuine Group Position Relation Society
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Evidence Fact Natural Reason Treat Woman
Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
MARGARET MEAD

Corporation Difference Government Passionate Problem
If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
MARGARET MEAD

Freedom Future Open Past People Support System Traditional Unknown
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
MARGARET MEAD

Culture Each Other Hierarchy Right Value

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