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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.

Margaret Mead

You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
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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Children Evidence Fact Natural Reason Treat Woman
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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Ability Learning Old Teaching
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Death Myself Retirement
Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Beginning End Hands Life Voice
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
Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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Creature Emotional Expression Grief Humor Intellectual Laughter Loyalty Man
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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Better Life Live People Study Understand
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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Family Impossible Relative Situation Support
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
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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Civilization Life People Realize Way
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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Different First National Press Run Society View

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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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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