Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
MARGARET MEADNobody 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.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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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.
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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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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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There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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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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The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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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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Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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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 small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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