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Quote by Margaret Mead

“I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.”

Quote by Margaret Mead

Book:Blkberry Winter

Work

Blkberry Winter

Blkberry Winter is a fictional narrative that takes place in a wintry landscape, delving into the resilience of the human spirit and the bonds formed in challenging circumstances. more

Author

Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist known for her groundbreaking fieldwork and theoretical contributions. She is renowned for her studies of the Samoan, Arapesh, and Australian Aboriginal peoples, which had a profound impact on the fields of anthropology and sociology. more

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“Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.”

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“Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.”

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“Mourning has become unfashionable in the United States. The bereaved are supposed to pull themselves together as quickly as possible and to reweave the torn fabric of life. ... we do not allow ... for the weeks and months during which a loss is realized - a beautiful word that suggests the transmutation of the strange into something that is one's own.”

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Book:A Way of Seeing

Source: A Way of Seeing

“Everybody's suffering is mine but not everybody's murdering ... I do not distinguish for one moment whether my child is in danger or a child in central Asia. But I will not accept responsibility for what other people do because I happen to belong to that nation or that race or that religion. I do not believe in guilt by association.”

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Author:Margaret Mead

“No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population - especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings - can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.”

Humans Country Human Beings Deals Violence Capable Killing Population Wounds Permit Distribution Escaping Firearms

Author:Margaret Mead

“I had my father's mind, but he had his mother's mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.”

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Book:Margaret Mead, some personal views

Source: Margaret Mead, some personal views

“To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.”

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Book:To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead

Source: To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead

“we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.”

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Author:Margaret Mead

“Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.”

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Book:Blkberry Winter

Source: Blkberry Winter

“Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.”

Book:To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead

Source: To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead