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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.

Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
Anthropologist
Cultural Anthropologist
Curator
Film Director
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Woman
Power
World
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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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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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No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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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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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
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human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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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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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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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman.
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I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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Maleness in America is not absolutely defined it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play.
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Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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