Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
MARGARET MEADMy grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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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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There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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