We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
MARGARET MEADThe time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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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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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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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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There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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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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