What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
MARGARET MEADThe solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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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.
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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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.
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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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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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Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
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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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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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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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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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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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