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I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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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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the task of each family is also the task of all humanity. This is to cherish the living, remember those who have gone before, and prepare for those who are not yet born.
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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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Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.
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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
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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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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 differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature.
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Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
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The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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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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