Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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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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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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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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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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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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.
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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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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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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