Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
MARGARET MEAD- There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
MARGARET MEADI have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
MARGARET MEADWhat the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
MARGARET MEADOne of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
MARGARET MEADAn ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
MARGARET MEADYou just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
MARGARET MEADI learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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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.
MARGARET MEADI 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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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
MARGARET MEADManners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
MARGARET MEADNever believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
MARGARET MEADMen have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
MARGARET MEADAs the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
MARGARET MEADIt is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
MARGARET MEADHuman beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
MARGARET MEADwe came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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