“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
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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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“As for the peasant populations of a great part of the world, they aren’t so much anxious as hungry. They aren’t anxious about whether they will get a salary raise, or which of the three colleges of their choice they will be admitted to, or whether to buy a Ford or Cadillac, or whether the kind of TV set they want is too expensive. They are hungry, cold and, in many parts of the world, they dread that local warfare, bandits, political coups may endanger their homes, their meager livelihoods and their lives. But surely they are not anxious. For anxiety, as we have come to use it to describe our characteristic state of mind, can be contrasted with the active fear of hunger, loss, violence and death. Anxiety is the appropriate emotion when the immediate personal terror–of a volcano, an arrow, the sorcerer’s spell, a stab in the back and other calamities, all directed against one’s self–disappears.”
Margaret Mead
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“Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.”
Margaret Mead
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“Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.”
Margaret Mead
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“I’ve been married three times — and each time I married the right person.”
Margaret Mead
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“Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.”
Margaret Mead
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“We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.”
Margaret Mead
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