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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.

Margaret Mead

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Children Education Society Teaching Woman
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Death Myself Retirement
The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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Assume Damage Different Important Man Oneself Woman
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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Alone Children Nation People Responsibility Save
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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Animal Children Dangerous Oneself
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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Education Goodness Myself Possible School
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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Family Nation Save Tribe Yourself
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
With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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Activity Crisis Development Discussion Exception Interest Mature Representation Stress

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