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Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
Anthropologist
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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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 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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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter.
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I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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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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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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Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.
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It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.
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Everybody's suffering is mine but not everybody's murdering ... I do not distinguish for one moment whether my child is in danger or a child in central Asia. But I will not accept responsibility for what other people do because I happen to belong to that nation or that race or that religion. I do not believe in guilt by association.
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We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
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The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.
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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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As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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