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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.

Margaret Mead

Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Ability Creation Daydream Effort Equality Experience Man Reward
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
MARGARET MEAD

Change Citizenship Doubt Small Thinking
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
MARGARET MEAD

Enough Intelligence Oneself State Understand
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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Behaviour Form Human Thinking Time
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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Allow Capable Country Distribution Escape Expectation Fire Human Kill Population Violence Wound
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
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
MARGARET MEAD

Guilty People Sleep Young
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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Home Human Need Old Wonder Yourself
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social

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