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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.

Margaret Mead

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
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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Education Goodness Myself Possible School
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
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
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
MARGARET MEAD

Feeling Known Love Word Yourself
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Children Education Society Teaching Woman
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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Goodness Grace Group Live Pleasant Small
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
MARGARET MEAD

Burn Dance Energy Love Pollution Prayer
We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
MARGARET MEAD

Adult Children Place Trust
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
MARGARET MEAD

Attention Brain Change Choice Ourselves
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Education Known Ourselves Point
An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
MARGARET MEAD

Education Success Willing
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
MARGARET MEAD

Believe End Feed Reward Society Violence
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
MARGARET MEAD

Awareness Capability Human Love Sexual Wide
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Father Fortune Intellectual Mindset Mom Sex Share

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.

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