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We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

Margaret Mead

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck
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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Attention Carry Children Community Husband Lover Need Romantic Time Willing World
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
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
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
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
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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Classification Existence Perish Potential Race Recognition Sex
We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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Appearance End Open Photograph Translation Woman
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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Act Biology Human Myself Realize
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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Change Citizenship Doubt Small Thinking
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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Anonymous Carry Strength Weakness

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

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We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

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