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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

Margaret Mead

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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Animal Children Dangerous Oneself
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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Education Goodness Myself Possible School
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
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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Belief Future Hands Problem Technology War
There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Elder Experience Young
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
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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Elder History See Time Young
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Order Yourself
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
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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Afford Class Gift Human National Need Neglect Origin Race Sex
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
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
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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Adult Complication Curiosity Fascination Human Mindset Transformation Way

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

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