Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
MARGARET MEADHome, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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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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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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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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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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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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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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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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One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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