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The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.

Margaret Mead

Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
MARGARET MEAD

Guilty People Sleep Young
The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
MARGARET MEAD

Adult Complication Curiosity Fascination Human Mindset Transformation Way
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
MARGARET MEAD

Attention Brain Change Choice Ourselves
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
MARGARET MEAD

Anonymous Carry Strength Weakness
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
MARGARET MEAD

Difficult Human Love Oneself Relationship
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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Greatness Power Woman World
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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Children Delight Difference Opportunity Present
I had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
MARGARET MEAD

Father Fortune Intellectual Mindset Mom Sex Share
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Ability Creation Daydream Effort Equality Experience Man Reward
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin
The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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Alone Children Nation People Responsibility Save
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
MARGARET MEAD

Bed Care Learning Yourself
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
MARGARET MEAD

Classification Existence Perish Potential Race Recognition Sex

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