The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
MARGARET MEADYoung people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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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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It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be 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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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Women have an important contribution to make.
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We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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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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Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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