Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
MARGARET MEADI 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.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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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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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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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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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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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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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.
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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