Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Mothers are a biological necessity fathers are a social invention.Margaret Mead
I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman. 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.
Margaret Mead
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Margaret Mead
People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.
Margaret Mead
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Margaret Mead
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
Margaret Mead
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