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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.

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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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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I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.
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Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.
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Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions.
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In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.
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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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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
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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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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
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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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It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.
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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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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.
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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 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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Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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