There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
MARGARET MEADThere is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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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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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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We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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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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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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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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Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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