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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.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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In each age there is a series of pressing questions which must be asked and answered. On the correctness of the questions depends the survival of those who ask on the quality of the answers depends the quality of the life those survivors will lead.
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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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there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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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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EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
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[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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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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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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