I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
MARGARET MEADWomen have an important contribution to make.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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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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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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