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.
MARGARET MEADYou know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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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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Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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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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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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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 most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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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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