Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
MARGARET MEADEvery time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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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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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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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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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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