Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
MARGARET MEADWe need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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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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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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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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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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