Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
MARGARET MEADWe are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
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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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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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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The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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