Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
MARGARET MEADThere 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.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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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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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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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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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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Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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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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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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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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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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