[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew. Margaret Mead More Quotes by Margaret Mead More Quotes From Margaret Mead 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 mother father sex I am interested in what happens to people who find the whole of life so rewarding that they are able to move through it with the same kind of delight in which a child moves through a game. Margaret Mead games children moving It used to be when we said, ''til death do us part,' death parted us pretty soon. That's why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead. Margaret Mead used lasts forever For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. Margaret Mead being-sad media history What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love. Margaret Mead awareness acceptance justice The mind is not sex-typed. Margaret Mead mind justice sex The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough. Margaret Mead success america people If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports. Margaret Mead nfl toys sports No matter how free divorce, how frequently marriages break up, in most societies there Margaret Mead divorce marriage strong Women have an important contribution to make. Margaret Mead important-contributions contribution important [Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men. Margaret Mead males prestige men In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a way of life is implicit in all human culture as we know it. But the separation of the teacher's role from the role of all adults who inducted the young into the habitual behavior of the group, was a comparatively late invention. Furthermore, when we do find explicit and defined teaching, in primitive societies we find it tied in with a sense of the rareness or the precariousness of some human tradition. Margaret Mead adults teaching teacher Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for ceremonial occasions, with a few startling exceptions resist alcohol, because if one drinks one loses one's orientation. Orientation is felt as a protection rather than as a strait jacket and its loss provokes extreme anxiety. Margaret Mead space strong loss Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves. Margaret Mead slave palaces women As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own. Margaret Mead memorable home travel Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent. Margaret Mead cultivation leisure capacity We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being. Margaret Mead political people thinking The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior... we shall not really succeed in discarding the straitjacket of our cultural beliefs about sexual choice if we fail to come to terms with the well-documented, normal human capacity to love members of both sexes. Margaret Mead capacity-to-love sex thinking The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings. Margaret Mead real inspirational needs We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties. Margaret Mead wells progress twenties
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