Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
MARGARET MEADAlways remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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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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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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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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Women have an important contribution to make.
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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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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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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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