It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.Margaret Mead
Some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing.
Margaret Mead
Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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