Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
MARGARET MEAD[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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.
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What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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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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There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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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.
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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.
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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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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.
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What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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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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We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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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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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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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.
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The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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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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The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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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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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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