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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.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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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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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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today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably in individuals within our society is nevertheless due not to original nature but to social environment and a homogeneous and simple development of the individual may be studied.
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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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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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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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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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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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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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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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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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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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