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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.

Margaret Mead

WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Peace Reward System War
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
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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Better Country Faith Member Religious Structure Trust
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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Believe Enough Growth Myself People Wisdom
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
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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Contribute Creation Culture Difference Generation Man Woman
‎ 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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Born Death Marriage Person Pretend Try
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Access Human Need Order
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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Attention Carry Children Community Husband Lover Need Romantic Time Willing World
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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Better Life Live People Study Understand
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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Civilization Life People Realize Way
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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Goodness Grace Group Live Pleasant Small
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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Care Earth Moon Ourselves Photograph Planet Realize
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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Home Human Need Old Wonder 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
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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Acceptance Evil Goodness Necessary Temporary
Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Beginning End Hands Life Voice
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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Cruel Fake Learning Old Age Play Regret Work
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Guilty People Sleep Young
In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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Better Goodness Society Thinking
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species

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