Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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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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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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