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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

Margaret Mead

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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Act Biology Human Myself Realize
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
There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Elder Experience Young
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
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
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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Ability Change Commitment Group Inspirational Small World
We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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Appearance End Open Photograph Translation Woman
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
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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Behavior Coward Ethics Open Question
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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Creation Home Hustle Learning Place Yourself

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