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

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

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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.

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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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Way
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.

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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.

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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Order
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.

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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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Oneself
No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.

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No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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Maturity Oneself
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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Measurement
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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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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Answer Listening Oneself
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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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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Crisis Development Discussion Mature Representation
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.

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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Prestige
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.

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There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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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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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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National Origin Race
‎ 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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‎ 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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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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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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Daydream
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.

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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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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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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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Sexuality

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