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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
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If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.
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And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like.
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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
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In each age there is a series of pressing questions which must be asked and answered. On the correctness of the questions depends the survival of those who ask on the quality of the answers depends the quality of the life those survivors will lead.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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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.
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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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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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All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
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I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw
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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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Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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the task of each family is also the task of all humanity. This is to cherish the living, remember those who have gone before, and prepare for those who are not yet born.
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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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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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