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

Margaret Mead

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
MARGARET MEAD

Admit Human Measurement Personal Success
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
MARGARET MEAD

Demand Enough Hate Love Worst
Between 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.
MARGARET MEAD

Beautiful Bribe Equality Friendship Relationship
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
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
MARGARET MEAD

Breathe Effort Love
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Believe Character Fix Tolerance Wrong
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
MARGARET MEAD

Journey Path Present Time
Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Future Imagination Listening Need Reality Willing Work
The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
MARGARET MEAD

Finding Human Meaning Need Reality Relationship Trust
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
MARGARET MEAD

Animal Children Dangerous Oneself
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
MARGARET MEAD

Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
MARGARET MEAD

Nature Pervert Thinking
Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
MARGARET MEAD

Change Experience Explode Justice Wound
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
MARGARET MEAD

Accident Biology Father Necessary Social

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