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The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.

Margaret Mead

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
MARGARET MEAD

Burn Dance Energy Love Pollution Prayer
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
Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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Change Experience Explode Justice Wound
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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Insecurity Jealous Love Reading
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
MARGARET MEAD

Appreciation Culture Home Knowledge Travel Wisdom
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
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
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Childhood Follow Mindset Pain Togetherness
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Community Future Growth Knowledge Old Past People
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
MARGARET MEAD

Cruel Fake Learning Old Age Play Regret Work
Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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Invention Old System War
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
MARGARET MEAD

Behavior Coward Ethics Open Question
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
MARGARET MEAD

Better Life Live People Study Understand
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
MARGARET MEAD

Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent

The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.

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