[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
MARGARET MEADThe ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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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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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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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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