If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
MARGARET MEADWhere we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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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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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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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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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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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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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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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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