There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
MARGARET MEADI was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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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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The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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