What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
MARGARET MEADEven though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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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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There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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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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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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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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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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