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In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep. The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep.
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Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.
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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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The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
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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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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world
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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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If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.
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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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