There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
MARGARET MEADSister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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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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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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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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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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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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