Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together …

Margaret Mead
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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. ✨ Margaret Mead (1975). Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world, William Morrow & Co
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. ✨ Attributed to Margaret Mead in Teaching Music Through Performance In Band, Volume 3 edited by Larry Blocher … ▶
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. ✨ Interview in Los Angeles on the occasion of her 75th birthday as quoted in Newsweek, Volume 88 (p. 157), December 1976.
I have been accused of having believed when I wrote Sex and Temperament that there are no sex differences... This, many readers felt, was too much. It was too pretty. I must have found what I was loo … ▶
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest. ✨ Margaret Mead (1972). Blkberry W … ▶

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. ✨ Margaret Mead (1975). Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world, William Morrow & Co

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