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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

Margaret Mead

We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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Adult Children Place Trust
The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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Belief Future Hands Problem Technology War
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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Believe Care Change People Power
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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Animal Children Dangerous Oneself
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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Ability Learning Old Teaching
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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Childhood Follow Mindset Pain Togetherness
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Death Myself Retirement
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Children Education Society Teaching Woman
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
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
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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Culture Each Other Hierarchy Right Value
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science

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