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" Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. "
Margaret Mead
Every Time
Liberate
Man
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" I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had. "
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" Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. "
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" Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary. "
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" If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. "
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" We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have. "
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" Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children. "
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" The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over. "
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" I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. "
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" It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. "
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" For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. "
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" Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. "
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" Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. "
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" Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. "
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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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" 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. "
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" A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. "
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" What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. "
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" We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. "
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" Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible. "
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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. "
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" The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. "
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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. "
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" Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. "
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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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