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 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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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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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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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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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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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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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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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.
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Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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