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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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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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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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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
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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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When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast. ... In college, in some way that I devoutly believed in but could not explain, I expected to become a person.
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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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And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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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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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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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
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War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.
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Our human situation no longer permits us to make armed dichotomies between those who are good and those who are evil, those who are right and those who are wrong. The first blow dealt to the enemy's children will sign the death warrant of our own.
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