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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
Curator
Film Director
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Fatherhood
Biological
Motherhood
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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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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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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 United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone
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Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
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I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast. ... In college, in some way that I devoutly believed in but could not explain, I expected to become a person.
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