I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
MARGARET MEADWe won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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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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We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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Women have an important contribution to make.
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Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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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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