We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
MARGARET MEADParents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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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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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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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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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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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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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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