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.
MARGARET MEADBlackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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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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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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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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In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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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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