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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
Effortless
Breathing
Lovely
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.
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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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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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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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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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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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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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It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.
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Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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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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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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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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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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