Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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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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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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