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.
MARGARET MEADMonogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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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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The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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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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There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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