Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
MARGARET MEADWhat people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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