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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.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill, however slightly, he is likely to try out not just one more, but a whole ensemble.
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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like.
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It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male it frightens the men, unsexes the women, and muffles and distorts the contribution women could make.
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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.
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We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.
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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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American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order of dominance is length of time in the fishbowl. The oldest resident picks on the newest resident, and if the newest resident is removed to a new bowl, he, as oldest resident, will pick on the newcomers.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw
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The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.
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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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We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex.
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