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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
Anthropologist
Cultural Anthropologist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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No matter how free divorce, how frequently marriages break up, in most societies there is the assumption of permanent mating, of the idea that the marriage should last as long as both live. . . . No known society has ever invented a form of marriage strong enough to stick that did not contain the 'till death us do part' assumption.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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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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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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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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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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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.
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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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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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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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Our human situation no longer permits us to make armed dichotomies between those who are good and those who are evil, those who are right and those who are wrong. The first blow dealt to the enemy's children will sign the death warrant of our 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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