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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

Margaret Mead

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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Father Fortune Intellectual Mindset Mom Sex Share
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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Accuracy Believe Information World
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
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Classification Existence Perish Potential Race Recognition Sex
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
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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Assume Damage Different Important Man Oneself Woman
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Elder Experience Young
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Enough Knowledge Known People Problem
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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Change Citizenship Doubt Small Thinking
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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Enough Intelligence Oneself State Understand
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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Believe Character Fix Tolerance Wrong
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Children Education Society Teaching Woman
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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Adult Children Grow Measurement Problem Solution
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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Afford Class Gift Human National Need Neglect Origin Race Sex

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