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> [the psychological attitudes which are indispensable in the American market place are disastrous to family life. Family life ... requires yieldingness, generosity, sympathy, altruism, tenderness-all the qualities, in fact, which lead straight to bankruptcy. ... the American family is tragically…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/the-psychological-attitudes-which-are-indispensable-in-the-american/)

[Margaret Halsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-halsey/)

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> [the American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings. ... It is failing because Americans do not dare to cultivate in themselves those characteristics which would make family life creative and rewarding. To do so,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/the-american-family-is-failing-in-its-job-of-turning-out-stable-human/)

[Margaret Halsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-halsey/)

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## More by Margaret Halsey

> [Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/life-itself-however-flows-and-is-sequential-and-punishes-those-who/)

[Margaret Halsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-halsey/)

> [the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/the-crucial-disadvantage-of-aggression-competitiveness-and-skepticism/)

[Margaret Halsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-halsey/)

> [Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/englishwomen-s-shoes-look-as-if-they-had-been-made-by-someone-who-had/)

[Margaret Halsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-halsey/)

> [it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/it-is-a-waste-of-time-to-ask-more-of-people-than-they-have-to-give/)

[Margaret Halsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-halsey/)

> [I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/i-would-have-felt-more-comfortable-on-a-girder-fifty-floors-above-the/)

[Margaret Halsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-halsey/)

> [The position of children as a group, in a commercial society, is not wholly advantageous. A commercial society urges its citizens to be responsible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/the-position-of-children-as-a-group-in-a-commercial-society-is-not/)

[Margaret Halsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-halsey/)

> [Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/money-does-not-corrupt-people-what-corrupts-people-is-lack-of/)

[Margaret Halsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-halsey/)

> [Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/identity-is-not-found-the-way-pharaoh-s-daughter-found-moses-in-the/)

[Margaret Halsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-halsey/)

> [I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/i-am-living-with-a-rising-generation-which-talks-like-people-coming/)

[Margaret Halsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-halsey/)

> [children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/children-are-an-embarrassment-to-a-business-civilization-a-business/)

[Margaret Halsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-halsey/)

> [The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/the-only-way-not-to-worry-about-the-race-problem-is-to-be-doing/)

[Margaret Halsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-halsey/)

> [Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/employed-as-i-had-been-employing-it-liquor-is-a-fixative-of-old/)

[Margaret Halsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-halsey/)

> [in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/in-the-comparatively-short-time-between-my-childhood-and-my-daughter/)

[Margaret Halsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-halsey/)

> [A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/a-person-may-be-totally-unimaginative-and-have-the-social-vision-of-a/)

[Margaret Halsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-halsey/)

> [Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/infants-i-note-with-envy-are-receptive-to-enjoyment-in-a-degree-not/)

[Margaret Halsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-halsey/)

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