Poet Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
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.
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.
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
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.
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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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