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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Margaret Mead

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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Contribute Creation Culture Difference Generation Man Woman
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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Believe Enough Growth Myself People Wisdom
The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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Assume Damage Different Important Man Oneself Woman
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown
We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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Adult Children Place Trust
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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Children Community Future Growth Knowledge Old Past People
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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Insecurity Jealous Love Reading
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Death Myself Retirement
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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Family Nation Save Tribe Yourself
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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Answer Country Listening Need Oneself Place Question Voice Wait
There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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Greatness Power Woman World
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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Behavior Direct Humanity Inheritance Learning Series

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