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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like.

Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
Anthropologist
Cultural Anthropologist
Curator
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Philadelphia
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I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex.
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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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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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American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order of dominance is length of time in the fishbowl. The oldest resident picks on the newest resident, and if the newest resident is removed to a new bowl, he, as oldest resident, will pick on the newcomers.
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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.
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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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We — mankind — stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device — our consciousness of the crisis — as our unique contribution.
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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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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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Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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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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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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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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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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