Category: anthropologist
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As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Margaret Mead
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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Margaret Mead
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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.
Margaret Mead
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
Margaret Mead
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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Margaret Mead
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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
Margaret Mead
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
Margaret Mead
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We have nowhere else to go… this is all we have.
Margaret Mead
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
Margaret Mead
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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
Margaret Mead