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We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.

Margaret Mead

With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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Activity Crisis Development Discussion Exception Interest Mature Representation Stress
The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Enough Knowledge Known People Problem
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
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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Insecurity Jealous Love Reading
Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
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
Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Beginning End Hands Life Voice
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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Communication Himself Lonely Person
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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Children Community Future Growth Knowledge Old Past People
[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Activity Attachment Man Prestige Value
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
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
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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Family Impossible Relative Situation Support

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