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

Margaret Mead

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.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Evidence Fact Natural Reason Treat Woman
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
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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Classification Existence Perish Potential Race Recognition Sex
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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Burn Dance Energy Love Pollution Prayer
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
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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Awareness Capability Human Love Sexual Wide
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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Cruel Fake Learning Old Age Play Regret Work
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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Adult Children Place Trust
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
I had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
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Father Fortune Intellectual Mindset Mom Sex Share
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Peace Reward System War
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

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

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