“What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expectancy was forty-six; now it was nearly eighty. Our groping sense that we couldn't live all those years in terms of motherhood alone was "the problem that had no name." Realizing that it was not some freakish personal fault but our common problem as women had enabled us to take the first steps to change our lives.” YearsFirstsHumansProblemTurnsNamesTermRealizingCommonStepsOur LivesCenturyMovementSixFaultsMotherhoodHuman LifeFortyFirst StepsEightyExpectancyLife Expectancy Author:Betty Friedan
“For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build solidly grounded ideas about the moral and political demands of human life. Margaret Mead saw mid-twentieth-century anthropology as engaged in a project no less ambitious than Kant's own, and her Terry Lectures on Continuities in Cultural Evolution provide an excellent point to enter into her reflections.” NeedsHumansIdeasPoliticalTermMoralSawsCenturyEvolutionDemandProjectsReflectionFoundationFamiliarExcellentHuman LifeEngagedAmbitiousGroundedLecturesTwentieth CenturyContinuityAnthropologyMead Author:Margaret Mead
“The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human?” HumansDoeValuesSimpleMoralCenturyDependsMoralityEqualProfoundHuman Life21st CenturyMoral Values Author:Wesley J. Smith
“Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history had demonstrated strong wills and purposes, had made assertions, and had directed or influenced all human destiny, including their own, since human life began.” HumansMadePurposeStrongSexWomenDestinyHistoryModernSubjectsEffectsCenturyIncludingDespiteHuman LifeDogmaAssertionNineteenth CenturyStrong WillWomen In History Author:Mary Ritter Beard
“It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.” IfsHumansAgeChildhoodCenturyYouthParticularPeriodsHuman LifeDivisionAdolescencePrivileged Book:Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life Source: Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life
“I had only to remember that centuries before, men fell in battle for the daughter of Troy, that passions carried greater weight than decorum. It took so little to prove that human life and property are devastatingly temporary. All she had to do was lie down for a prince. They burned the city to the ground.” MenHumansLittlesRememberLyingPassionCitiesGreaterCenturyBattleProveDaughterWeightPropertyHuman LifeTemporaryBurnedDecorum Author:Brenna Yovanoff