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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.

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
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Effortless
Breathing
Lovely
Loving

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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 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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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like.
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the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children each holds the responsibility for the others' children.
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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.
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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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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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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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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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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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In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.
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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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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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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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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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