Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
MARGARET MEADWE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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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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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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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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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.
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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.
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No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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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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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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In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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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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In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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