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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.

Margaret Mead

The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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Assume Damage Different Important Man Oneself Woman
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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Father Fortune Intellectual Mindset Mom Sex Share
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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Enough Intelligence Oneself State Understand
One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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Believe Character Fix Tolerance Wrong
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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Allow Capable Country Distribution Escape Expectation Fire Human Kill Population Violence Wound
With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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Activity Crisis Development Discussion Exception Interest Mature Representation Stress
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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Change Citizenship Doubt Small Thinking
Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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Culture Delight Hold Human Identity Learning Pleasure
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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Beginning Born Compel Humility Struggle
We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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Appearance End Open Photograph Translation Woman
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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Communication Himself Lonely Person
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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Ability Brilliant Culture Fulfill Order Promise Quality Woman
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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Attention Brain Change Choice Ourselves
There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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Children Evidence Fact Natural Reason Treat Woman

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