The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
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Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.Margaret Mead
The suffering of either sex -- of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong initiating or patriarchal role that is still demanded of him, or of the female who has been given too much freedom of movement as a child to stay placidly within the house as an adult -- this suffering, this discrepancy, this sense of failure in an enjoined role, is the point of leverage for social change.
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The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone
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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
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