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Been Quotes by Margaret Mead
- We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step…
- The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.
- I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.
- It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.
- The suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong…
- When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model…
- Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
- Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to…
- Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well as…
- 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…
- 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…
- No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation. We have…
- As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser thanhe who has never left his owndoorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture…
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour