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 MEADThe Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Women have an important contribution to make.
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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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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The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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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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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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