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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

Margaret Mead

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Children Destroy Generation Growth Power World
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.
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Children Community Future Growth Knowledge Old Past People
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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Competition Relationship Sister Strong
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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Believe Enough Growth Myself People Wisdom
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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Genuine Group Position Relation Society
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Access Human Need Order
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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Accuracy Believe Information World
We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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Consciousness Crisis Evolution Kind Man Ourselves Unique
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
‎ 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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Born Death Marriage Person Pretend Try
One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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Believe Character Fix Tolerance Wrong
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social

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