An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
MARGARET MEADWhat is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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.
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In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
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Women have an important contribution to make.
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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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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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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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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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