Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
MARGARET MEADEvery time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
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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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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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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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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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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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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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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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