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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Margaret Mead

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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Appearance End Open Photograph Translation Woman
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Access Human Need Order
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
One 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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Home Human Need Old Wonder Yourself
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
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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Body Emotion Movement Oneself Pattern Pleasant
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
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Beyond Children Development Life Style Live Ourselves People Resource
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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Better Goodness Society Thinking
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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Greatness Power Woman World
Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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Calendar Day Harmony History Holy Nature Transcend
There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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Children Evidence Fact Natural Reason Treat Woman
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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Elder History See Time Young
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Elder Experience Young
‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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Born Death Marriage Person Pretend Try
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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Behaviour Form Human Thinking Time
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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Children Future Greatness Insight Ourselves Save
[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Activity Attachment Man Prestige Value
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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Enough Intelligence Oneself State Understand
The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Enough Knowledge Known People Problem
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal

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