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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
Invention
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Fatherhood
Biological
Motherhood

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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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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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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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