And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
MARGARET MEADBetween friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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Women have an important contribution to make.
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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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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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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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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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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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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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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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