There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
MARGARET MEADBe who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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.
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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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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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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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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The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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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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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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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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